It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell
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I have been redpilling people since 1984.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.