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George Orwell Quotes

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.  (George Orwell Quotes) If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?  (George Orwell Quotes) [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.  (George Orwell Quotes) I’m fat, but I’m thin inside... there’s a thin man inside every fat man.  (George Orwell Quotes) A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.  (George Orwell Quotes) All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.  (George Orwell Quotes) In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last  (George Orwell Quotes) We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun  (George Orwell Quotes) The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside  (George Orwell Quotes) It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.  (George Orwell Quotes) The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’, and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.  (George Orwell Quotes) England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality  (George Orwell Quotes) The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.  (George Orwell Quotes) [..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: ‘Thou shalt not lose thy job.  (George Orwell Quotes) An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face  (George Orwell Quotes) I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.  (George Orwell Quotes) True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear  (George Orwell Quotes) Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.  (George Orwell Quotes) On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time  (George Orwell Quotes) Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket  (George Orwell Quotes) But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought  (George Orwell Quotes) No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer  (George Orwell Quotes) Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism  (George Orwell Quotes) As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is it's adherents  (George Orwell Quotes) Four legs good, two legs bad  (George Orwell Quotes) Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear  (George Orwell Quotes) Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self deception  (George Orwell Quotes) Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia  (George Orwell Quotes) Serious sport is war minus the shooting  (George Orwell Quotes) The best books. Are those that tell you what you know already  (George Orwell Quotes)
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