"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."

Orwell, George | Sports | 4 bookmarks

"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."

Orwell, George | Modern and Modernism | 2 bookmarks

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

Orwell, George | Oppression | 2 bookmarks

"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

Proverb | Hope | 4 bookmarks

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

Orwell, George | Candor | 2 bookmarks

"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George | Tragedies | 3 bookmarks

"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]"

Bible | Parents and Parenting | 2 bookmarks

"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph | Passion | 3 bookmarks

"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Brecht, Bertolt | Peace | 1 bookmarks

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

Proverb | Advice | 1 bookmarks