George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ”

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ”

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. ”