George Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.