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George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
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To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.
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You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
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That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
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Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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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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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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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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Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
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We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
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I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.
George Orwell
