"Human beings were behaving as human beings..." - Quote by George Orwell

“There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

“His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.”

“Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.”

“I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.”

“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”

“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”

“The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.”

“Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.”