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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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The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.
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Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
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Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
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They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening
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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
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Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.
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The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.
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The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
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He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
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Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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