To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon