Motivational Status in English

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

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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.

To survive, you must tell stories.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

In our time, no one is poor but the poor.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.