On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell