George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ”

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. ”

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ”

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ”

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ”

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ”

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ”

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ”

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ”

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. ”