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George Orwell Quotes

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship  (George Orwell Quotes) Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end  (George Orwell Quotes) The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded  (George Orwell Quotes) The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature  (George Orwell Quotes) The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun  (George Orwell Quotes) The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time  (George Orwell Quotes) 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  (George Orwell Quotes) To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others  (George Orwell Quotes) To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself  (George Orwell Quotes) We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose  (George Orwell Quotes) What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?  (George Orwell Quotes) When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash  (George Orwell Quotes) Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen  (George Orwell Quotes) I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting  (George Orwell Quotes) All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes  (George Orwell Quotes) One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool  (George Orwell Quotes) The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which  (George Orwell Quotes) A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things  (George Orwell Quotes) The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped  (George Orwell Quotes) A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise  (George Orwell Quotes) One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death  (George Orwell Quotes) No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid  (George Orwell Quotes) Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated  (George Orwell Quotes) Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?  (George Orwell Quotes) All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery  (George Orwell Quotes) History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics  (George Orwell Quotes) He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin  (George Orwell Quotes) Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand  (George Orwell Quotes) The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history  (George Orwell Quotes) Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom  (George Orwell Quotes)
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