One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing.
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions.
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any practical result whatsoever, you’ve beaten them.
If human equality is to be forever averted – if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently – then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!