George Orwell Quotes
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

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

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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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell

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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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell