(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain