"I often wondered whether any of the..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.”

“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?”

“Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.”

“Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.”

“Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.”

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

“There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.”

“The error of our eye directs our mind.What error leads must err.”

“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”