#be

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

— George Orwell

#beds #behalf #men #night #only

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#becomes #deceit #during #revolutionary #telling

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ↗

— George Orwell

#beds #harm #men #night #our

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ↗

— George Orwell

#hear #liberty #means #people #right

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ↗

— George Orwell

#against #before #comes #every #homicidal

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

#believe #could #ideas #intelligent #intelligent person

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