"Can you not understand that liberty is..." - Quote by George Orwell

“I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.”

“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

“The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.”

“We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.”

“Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.”

“The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.”

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.”