"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree."
— George Orwell

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
— Aldous Huxley

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
— George Orwell

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell (1984)

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

Politics and the English Language, 1946"
— George Orwell

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
— George Orwell

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
— George Orwell

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. "
— George Orwell

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
— George Orwell

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
— George Orwell

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
— Aldous Huxley

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

"من يقرأ التاريخ في دول العالم الثالث سيجد المأساة مؤلمة, كثيرون تحرروا بالثورة من المحتل الاجنبي ليخضعوا طواعية للمحتل الوطني"
— أحمد العايدي (أن تكون عباس العبد)

"أحيانًا يساعدنا الآخرون بأن يكونوا فى حياتنا فحسب"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"أسوأ تعذيب فى العالم هو الشخص المُصر على الكلام بينما أنت مُثقل بالهموم , ترغب فى أن تبقى صامتاً وأن تصغى لأفكارك."
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"كم هو جميل ان تمارس حكمتك بين وقت و اخر.
نحن نفعلها طوال الوقت لنجعل من الاخرين اقل شأنا او اكثر سوءا"
— أحمد العايدي (أن تكون عباس العبد)