"The real division is not between conservatives..." - Quote by George Orwell

“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”

“Power is not a means; it is an end.”

“They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself”

“There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.”

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”

“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”

“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”

“It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.”