10 inspirational george orwell quotes on success

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past control the future.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims but accomplices.