Orwell in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat, the will to fascism had not gone away, that far from having seen its day it had perhaps not yet even come into its own - the corruption of spirit, the irresistible human addiction to power were already long in place, all well-known aspects of the Third Reich and Stalin's USSR, even the British Labour party - like first drafts of a terrible future.

Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attentio…

In Burma and Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, and in Spain, being shot at, and eventually wounded, by fascists - he had invested blood, pain and…

[Orwell] could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

'Another war is always coming: They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, …

The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest …

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general pre…