QUOTES by George Orwell
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
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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.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
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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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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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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.
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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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.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
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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.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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.
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