George Orwell Quotes

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"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." (1984)

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"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy... which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question...Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness."

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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 squirting out ink."

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." (1984)

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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."

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"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simutaneously, and accepting both of them."

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"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (Animal Farm)

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"Big brother is watching you." (1984)

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"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."

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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows."

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"Political chaos is connected with the decay in language...one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal ends."

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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."

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"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."

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"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

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"All propoganda is lies, even when it's the truth."

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"(He) who controls the past controls the future. (He) who controls the present controls the past."

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"Happiness can only exist in acceptance."