Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
George Orwell Quotes
ConsequenceIgnoranceNaivetyRisk So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
Media AccuracyPerception Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
ControlDeceptionDualityManipulationOppression War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
ControlFutureInfluencePast Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
CorruptionPervasivenessPolitics 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.
ApprovalGovernanceIdealsIdentityLanguage It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
CensorshipDangerPowerSurveillanceTyranny As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
ConflictExploitationGreedPower DynamicsWealth War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Human ProgressHuman ResponsibilityMoral FrameworkRejection of SupernaturalSecular Ethics Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Conditional LoveEmpathyImbalance in RelationshipsLoveMutuality of Feelings 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.
DecayHistorical DistortionMisinformationTruthWorldview The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
AdaptationDeclineLegacyTradition Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
Human EqualitySocietal Progress No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
HappinessPerspectivePurpose Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
FortitudeNobilityResilienceStruggleTragedy A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
ClaritySelf-EffacementWriting 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.
AggressionCompetitionRuthlessnessWar 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.
BeliefIntegrityMorality If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
ControlIntelligenceOppressionSociety War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.