Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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The object of power is power.
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