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George Orwell Quote: “If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.”
George Orwell Quote: “After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb ‘Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don’t trust an Armenian.”
George Orwell Quote: “Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”
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: “No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”
George Orwell Quote: “Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
George Orwell Quote: “Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!” It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.”
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: “Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
George Orwell Quote: “The more intelligent, the less sane.”
George Orwell Quote: “Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
George Orwell Quote: “Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”
George Orwell Quote: “Perhaps “friend” was not exactly the right word. You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades; but there were some comrades whose society was pleasanter than that of others.”
George Orwell Quote: “All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.”
George Orwell Quote: “By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”
George Orwell Quote: “The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984.”
George Orwell Quote: “Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”
George Orwell Quote: “Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
George Orwell Quote: “The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
George Orwell Quote: “When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”
George Orwell Quote: “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
George Orwell Quote: “How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”
George Orwell Quote: “A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
George Orwell Quote: “So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
George Orwell Quote: “The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.”
George Orwell Quote: “The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.”
George Orwell Quote: “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
George Orwell Quote: “A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.”
George Orwell Quote: “Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”
George Orwell Quote: “He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”
George Orwell Quote: “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
George Orwell Quote: “The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous.”
George Orwell Quote: “The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.”
George Orwell Quote: “The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.”
George Orwell Quote: “The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense, it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order.”
George Orwell Quote: “Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
George Orwell Quote: “The end was contained in the beginning.”
George Orwell Quote: “We may be together for another six months – a year – there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”
George Orwell Quote: “The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.”
George Orwell Quote: “Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”
George Orwell Quote: “The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”
George Orwell Quote: “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.”
George Orwell Quote: “And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty.”
George Orwell Quote: “All art is propaganda.”
George Orwell Quote: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.”
George Orwell Quote: “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.”
George Orwell Quote: “The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.”
George Orwell Quote: “Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.”
George Orwell Quote: “At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.”
George Orwell Quote: “The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.”
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