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George Orwell Quotes

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love Picture Quote #1

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened Picture Quote #1

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear Picture Quote #1

There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years Picture Quote #1

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary Picture Quote #1

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen Picture Quote #1

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Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have? Picture Quote #1

Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so Picture Quote #1

However delicately it is disguised, charity is still horrible; there is a malaise, almost a secret hatred, between the giver and the receiver Picture Quote #1

Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone? Picture Quote #1

If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature Picture Quote #1

So far as I can see, 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 Picture Quote #1

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of 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 Picture Quote #1

By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship Picture Quote #1

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

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for Picture Quote #1

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better Picture Quote #1

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Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love (George Orwell Quotes) A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened (George Orwell Quotes) If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear (George Orwell Quotes) There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years (George Orwell Quotes) We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary (George Orwell Quotes) If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen (George Orwell Quotes) Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have? (George Orwell Quotes) Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so (George Orwell Quotes) However delicately it is disguised, charity is still horrible; there is a malaise, almost a secret hatred, between the giver and the receiver (George Orwell Quotes) Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone? (George Orwell Quotes) If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature (George Orwell Quotes) So far as I can see, 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 (George Orwell Quotes) Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of 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) By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship (George Orwell Quotes) People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? Natural death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful (George Orwell Quotes) It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for (George Orwell Quotes) But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better (George Orwell Quotes)

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