War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard