George Orwell
George Orwell was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair (1903-06-25 – 1950-01-21).
Found 48 thoughts of George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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He who controls the present, controls the past.He who controls the past, controls the future.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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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.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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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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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
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