George Orwell

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ”

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ”

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ”

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ”

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. ”

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ”

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ”

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ”

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ”

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”