George Orwell quotes - page 16

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. (George Orwell)

I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts journalists.

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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

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It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

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On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

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[...] antisemitism is an irrational thing. The Jews are accused of specific offences (for instance, bad behaviour in food queues) which the person speaking feels strongly about, but it is obvious that these accusations merely rationalise some deep-rooted prejudice.

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War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface.

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Having defeated your enemy you have to choose (unless you want another war within a generation) between exterminating him and treating him generously.

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The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring's bombing planes.

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He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

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Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship. (George Orwell)

Not to have a national anthem would be logical.

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In a country like England you can no more be cultured without money than you can join the Cavalry Club.

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Having lived in an oriental country I have developed a certain indifference to miracles, and I well know that having delusions, or even being an outright lunatic, is quite compatible with what is loosely called genius.

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[T]here is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years.

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Decline of the English Murder.

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Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have?

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Particularly on the Left, political thought is a sort of masturbation fantasy in which the world of facts hardly matters.

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One of the big failures in human history has been the agelong attempt to stop women painting their faces.

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Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.

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If you talk to a thoughtful Christian, Catholic or Anglican, you often ﬁnd yourself laughed at for being so ignorant as to suppose that anyone ever took the doctrines of the Church literally. (George Orwell)

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.

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The more men you've had, the more I love you.

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[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

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There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

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George Orwell

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Occupation: British Author
Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
Quotes count: 611
Wikipedia: George Orwell

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