100+ George Orwell Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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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Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELL

Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
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

Against Defense Politics Represent War
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELL

Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
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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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want

George Orwell Quotes

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