Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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