All George Orwell Quotes
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
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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
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell
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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.
George Orwell
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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