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
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell
Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry