George Orwell

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

Defense Sacrifice Security

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Conflict Defeat War

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Knowledge Reading

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Discipline Education History

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happiness Life

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Dictatorship Power Revolution

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Animals Equality Justice

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Expression Freedom Rights