"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."-- George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.-- George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.-- George Orwell
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.-- George Wald
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."-- George Iles
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.-- George Orwell