George Orwell
SiTe I-I-
SiTe I-I- Unseelie
NOTE: This is a historical typing, so quotes are the basis of this typing conclusion.
Orwell: "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
Orwell: "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Orwell: "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
Orwell: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
Orwell: "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
Orwell: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Orwell: "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."
Orwell: "Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
Orwell: "We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
Orwell: "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
Orwell: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Orwell: "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."
Orwell: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
Orwell: "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
Orwell: "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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."
Orwell: "War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."
Orwell: "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
Orwell: "Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
Orwell: "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
Orwell: "To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
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."
Orwell: "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
Orwell: "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
Orwell: "Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."