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George Orwell Quotes

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly Picture Quote #1

The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal Picture Quote #1

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer’s cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there Picture Quote #1

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain Picture Quote #1

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful Picture Quote #1

This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we’re all corpses. Just rotting upright Picture Quote #1

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The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings Picture Quote #1

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable Picture Quote #1

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations Picture Quote #1

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about’ capitalist’ and ‘proletarian’ and a little more about the robbers and the robbed Picture Quote #1

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The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills Picture Quote #1

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin Picture Quote #1

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind Picture Quote #1

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don’t belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler Picture Quote #1

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! Picture Quote #1

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last Picture Quote #1

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Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones Picture Quote #1

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise Picture Quote #1

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there Picture Quote #1

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice Picture Quote #1

You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different Picture Quote #1

Man’s greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person’s writing Picture Quote #1

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents Picture Quote #1

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system Picture Quote #1

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull Picture Quote #1

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets Picture Quote #1

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another Picture Quote #1

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi Picture Quote #1

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England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly (George Orwell Quotes) The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal (George Orwell Quotes) The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer’s cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there (George Orwell Quotes) Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain (George Orwell Quotes) People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful (George Orwell Quotes) This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we’re all corpses. Just rotting upright (George Orwell Quotes) The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings (George Orwell Quotes) In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable (George Orwell Quotes) Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity (George Orwell Quotes) 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 (George Orwell Quotes) Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations (George Orwell Quotes) The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about’ capitalist’ and ‘proletarian’ and a little more about the robbers and the robbed (George Orwell Quotes) The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills (George Orwell Quotes) Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin (George Orwell Quotes) It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind (George Orwell Quotes) As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don’t belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler (George Orwell Quotes) I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! (George Orwell Quotes) Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last (George Orwell Quotes) Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. (George Orwell Quotes) Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise (George Orwell Quotes) Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. (George Orwell Quotes) Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice (George Orwell Quotes) You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different. (George Orwell Quotes) Man’s greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person’s writing (George Orwell Quotes) As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents (George Orwell Quotes) The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. (George Orwell Quotes) We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. (George Orwell Quotes) A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. (George Orwell Quotes) The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. (George Orwell Quotes) Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi. (George Orwell Quotes)

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