The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
From George Orwell
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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