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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

George Orwell

Food

Machine

May

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

Truth

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

George Orwell

Age

Feelings

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

War

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

George Orwell

Time

Want

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.

George Orwell

Love

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

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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.

George Orwell

Hearing

Remarkable