"It said what he would have said,..." - Quote by George Orwell

“It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.”

“Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.”

“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”

“As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.”

“It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.”

“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.”