Even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
Even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell