Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELL
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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