All George Orwell Quotes
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
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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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George Orwell
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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
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
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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.
George Orwell
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
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