Quotes by Orwell, George

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all >>

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensib >>

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, >>

Quotations about Perfection

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towar >>

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot. >>

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad trea >>

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

Orwell, George