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
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. – George Orwell
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011