George Orwell Quotes
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~ George Orwell Quote
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell Quote
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
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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.
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
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Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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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.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell Quote
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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International sport is war without shooting.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
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When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
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He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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