Glen Daniel > Glen Daniel's Quotes

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
― George Orwell

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
― George Orwell

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution”
― George Orwell, An Age Like This: 1920-1940

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
― George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays

“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days