George Orwell
Quotations
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“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.” -George Orwell
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“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.” -George Orwell
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“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.” -George Orwell
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell
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“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
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“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” -George Orwell
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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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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?” -George Orwell
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell
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“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.” -George Orwell
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“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” -George Orwell
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“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
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” -George Orwell
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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” -George Orwell
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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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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.” -George Orwell
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“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.” -George Orwell
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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.” -George Orwell
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“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.” -George Orwell
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell
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