Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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