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 ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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 real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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