"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous | Education | 7 bookmarks

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

Orwell, George | Freedom | 2 bookmarks

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness"

Orwell, George | Happiness | 3 bookmarks

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

Orwell, George | Love | 2 bookmarks

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

Orwell, George | Freedom | 3 bookmarks

"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?"

Orwell, George | Madness | 3 bookmarks

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."

Orwell, George | Oppression | 2 bookmarks

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Orwell, George | Past | 5 bookmarks

"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)."

Orwell, George | Atheism | 3 bookmarks

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Orwell, George | Equality | 2 bookmarks