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George Orwell  Quotes
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist.

—George Orwell

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1984Big-BrotherGeorge
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

—George Orwell

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DespotsDictatorshipInterventionism
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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

—George Orwell

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DeathLife
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Room 101,’ he said.

—George Orwell

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Fear
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There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch,...

—George Orwell

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OrthodoxyPoliticsSex
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I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That’s an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it’s next door to impossible not to...

—George Orwell

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Reality
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People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

—George Orwell

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Society
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For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading – used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horrible communism of the Square. After a...

—George Orwell

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ExperienceLife
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There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

—George Orwell

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Cats
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If there really is such a thing as turning in one’s grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

—George Orwell

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Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few...

—George Orwell

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Nostalgia
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He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

—George Orwell

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Inspirational
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Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

—George Orwell

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Writing
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Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are...

—George Orwell

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BrainwashingGeorge-BushIgnorance
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If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if...

—George Orwell

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DemocracyFreedomFreedom-Of-Speech
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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to...

—George Orwell

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OppressionPowerTerrorism
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It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

—George Orwell

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BeliefCulture
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There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

—George Orwell

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HumilityLove
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

—George Orwell

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Enemies
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The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

—George Orwell

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ConditioningEqualityFeminism
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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...

—George Orwell

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ClarityEnglish-LanguageInsincerity
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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

—George Orwell

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AbsurdityMysticalTruth
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At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

—George Orwell

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IndividualityKnowledgeSanity
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

—George Orwell

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AuthoritarianismLibertarianismPolitics
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A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except — very rarely,...

—George Orwell

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DepressionLifeLove
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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books,...

—George Orwell

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Money
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I’m not interested in the next generation, dear. I’m interested in us.’ – Julia

—George Orwell

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1984George-OrwellLove
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Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and...

—George Orwell

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CapitalismCommunismEquality
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

—George Orwell

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Animal-Farm
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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...

—George Orwell

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Racism
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too...

—George Orwell

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AgeDeathHealth
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is...

—George Orwell

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Biological-NeedsFear
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Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips...

—George Orwell

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InspirationalPoliticalPolitics
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Reality is inside the skull.

—George Orwell

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Reality
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What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.

—George Orwell

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PoliticsSociety
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To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is almost too obvious and too generally admitted to need pointing out. But as...

—George Orwell

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MechanizationTechnology
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Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to dootherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, todo what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

—George Orwell

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1984ClassicsOrwell
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Dovunque, in tutto il mondo, centinaia o migliaia di milioni di individui, tutti eguali, ignari dell’esistenza di altri individui, tenuti separati da mura di odio e di bugie, eppure quasi gli stessi.

—George Orwell

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ConsapevolezzaCriticaDissenso
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

—George Orwell

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FreedomIgnoranceInspirational
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Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

—George Orwell

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LifeWriting
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A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

—George Orwell

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BritainBritish-EmpireColonialism
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

—George Orwell

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HistoryPropagandaRewriting-History
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

—George Orwell

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Power
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For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to...

—George Orwell

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LonlinessMemory
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Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the pools underneath like a kind of deep green glass. Summer evenings, the fish...

—George Orwell

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Childhood
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Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow...

—George Orwell

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Big-BrotherMetaphorThought-Provoking
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All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion,...

—George Orwell

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EducationIntellectLiberty
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A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

—George Orwell

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Observation
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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped...

—George Orwell

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CommunismTruth
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A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure....

—George Orwell

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ClassDown-And-Out-In-Paris-And-LondonEducation
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