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The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. (George Orwell)
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. View quote
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I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. View quote
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If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. View quote
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You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. View quote
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Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. View quote
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. View quote
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In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer. View quote
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As to a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc is P. S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favour George Orwell. View quote
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The outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing is the unnecessary detail. View quote
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It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide. (George Orwell)
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. View quote
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When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys. View quote
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You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. View quote
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If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right. View quote
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. View quote
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A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. View quote
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. View quote
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We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. View quote
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. View quote
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. (George Orwell)
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. View quote
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. View quote
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The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. View quote
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. View quote
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George Orwell

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