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Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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International football is the continuation of war by other means.
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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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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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[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.
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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home what they fear is physical force.
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The object of powder is powder.
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My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.
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Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
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The more intelligent, the less sane
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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To say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
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Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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