#be

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#control #describing #england #family #members

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human

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

— George Orwell

#been #eurasia #had #therefore #war

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ↗

— George Orwell

#eternal #eternal vigilance #i #liberty #much

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #human #human being #love #loving

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ↗

— George Orwell

#comes #heroic #human #human beings #pinch

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ↗