Here are my favorite George Orwell quotes:

-A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

-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.

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

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

-If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

-In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

-Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

-Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

-One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

-Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

-The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

-The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

-To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

-Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.