Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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