The mark of a great thinker/writer is when his words hold relevance long after he is gone. Novelist George Orwell is one rare such voice that has resounded through every political era since the nineteenth century. His two most famous works – the allegorical satire of the Soviet Union, ‘Animal Farm', and Nineteen Eighty-Four – have gone down in history as masterpieces in political commentary. Sharp, sarcastic and on point – Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, is as relevant today as he was in his time. These 14 quotes by him are as true today as they were in the nineteenth century.