June 25th: George Orwell

George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born on this date in 1903. Here are ten George Orwell quotes.

1. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
2. Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
3. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
4. I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
5. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
6. What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
7. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
8. At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
9. Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.
10. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.