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Quotes by George Orwell
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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.
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.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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