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George Orwell Inspirational Quotes (411)

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What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
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The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.
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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
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Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.
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Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
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You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
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I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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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.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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