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George Orwell Inspirational Quotes (411)

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If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
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The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.
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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
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The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
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they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.
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And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
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A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'
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Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
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One must choose between God and Man, and all radicals and progressives, from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
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In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.: 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.
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