George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell

Profession : Author

Birth : June 25, 1903

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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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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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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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 vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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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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