Quotes Compiled - George Orwell "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull." ~~ George Orwell, 1984 "If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones." ~~ George Orwell, 1984 "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." ~~ George Orwell "The average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit." ~~ George Orwell