George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ”

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ”

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ”

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. ”

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ”

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ”

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ”

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ”

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. ”

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”