George Orwell quotes - page 9

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. (George Orwell)

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. (George Orwell)

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

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You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

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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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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. (George Orwell)

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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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

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You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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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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