There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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