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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Written by George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Written by George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Written by George Orwell
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Written by George Orwell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Written by George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Written by George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Written by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Written by George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Written by George Orwell
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Written by George Orwell
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Written by George Orwell
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Written by George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Written by George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
Written by George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Written by George Orwell
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.
Written by George Orwell
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.
Written by George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Written by George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Written by George Orwell
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Written by George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
Written by George Orwell
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Written by George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Written by George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Written by George Orwell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Written by George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Written by George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Written by George Orwell
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Written by George Orwell
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
Written by George Orwell
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Written by George Orwell

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