George Orwell

"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."

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

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."