The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with...
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be...
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who...
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think...
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but...
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about...
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than...
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man but only in certain...
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it...
As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its...
Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in...
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's...
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary...
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred and always stronger than...
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit...
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand...
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred...
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could...
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first...
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will...
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is...
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly...
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
