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George Orwell Quote: “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
George Orwell Quote: “If one harbors anywhere in one’s mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.”
George Orwell Quote: “Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation.”
George Orwell Quote: “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”
George Orwell Quote: “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
George Orwell Quote: “Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
George Orwell Quote: “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
George Orwell Quote: “A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
George Orwell Quote: “If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver’s Travels among them.”
George Orwell Quote: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
George Orwell Quote: “Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.”
George Orwell Quote: “A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
George Orwell Quote: “Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
George Orwell Quote: “Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”
George Orwell Quote: “Napoleon is always right.”
George Orwell Quote: “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 Quote: “Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
George Orwell Quote: “But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.”
George Orwell Quote: “Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”
George Orwell Quote: “Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”
George Orwell Quote: “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”
George Orwell Quote: “A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.”
George Orwell Quote: “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
George Orwell Quote: “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”
George Orwell Quote: “It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
George Orwell Quote: “The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
George Orwell Quote: “How right the working classes are in their “materialism.” How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!”
George Orwell Quote: “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”
George Orwell Quote: “You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.”
George Orwell Quote: “One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell Quote: “Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.”
George Orwell Quote: “In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”
George Orwell Quote: “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”
George Orwell Quote: “Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.”
George Orwell Quote: “Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.”
George Orwell Quote: “If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.”
George Orwell Quote: “We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.”
George Orwell Quote: “To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
George Orwell Quote: “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.”
George Orwell Quote: “What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.”
George Orwell Quote: “The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.”
George Orwell Quote: “All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.”
George Orwell Quote: “If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.”
George Orwell Quote: “Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.”
George Orwell Quote: “Fascism has nothing to do with capitalism. Fascism is just a kind of meaningless wickedness, an aberration, ‘mass sadism’, the sort of thing that would happen if you suddenly let loose an asylumful of homicidal maniacs.”
George Orwell Quote: “The more intelligent, the less sane.”
George Orwell Quote: “His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” – which he had adopted as his personal motto.”
George Orwell Quote: “We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.”
George Orwell Quote: “He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.”
George Orwell Quote: “Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
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