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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.
~ George Orwell Quote
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~ George Orwell Quote
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
~ George Orwell Quote
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell Quote
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.
~ George Orwell Quote
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.
~ George Orwell Quote
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.
~ George Orwell Quote
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 Quote
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
~ George Orwell Quote
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
~ George Orwell Quote
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
~ George Orwell Quote
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
~ George Orwell Quote
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 Quote