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George Orwell Quote - Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Judgement People Thinking Writing
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conservation One Liner Patriotism
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL

Liberty One Liner Power Worship
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL

Capital Slave World
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL

Play Serious Sports
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Intellectual Normal Person
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL

Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELL

Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL

Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL

Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Drift Society Speak Truth
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Polite

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