Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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 war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The object of power is power.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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