Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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