George Orwell Quotes

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.