It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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