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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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