All George Orwell Quotes
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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
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The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
George Orwell
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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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 Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
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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
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell
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