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George Orwell quotes  (By Underspin (24) on 03/19/2005)

This weblist will evaluate which Orwell quotes stand out as being the most significant, timeless and intellectually substantial. In viewing these quotes, it is helpful - though not altogether necessary - to be familiar with his written works (Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, etc) and general philosophy. 5 = Great
 
 
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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." (2)  5.00 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (2)  4.80 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simutaneously, and accepting both of them." (2)  4.75 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." (3)  4.71 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"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." (2)  4.60 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." (9)  4.57 (14)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." (1984) (5)  4.57 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." (2)  4.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." (2)  4.33 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." (1984) (4)  4.33 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"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." (0)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history." (0)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (Animal Farm) (1)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Big brother is watching you." (1984) (1)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows." (3)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Political chaos is connected with the decay in language...one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal ends." (2)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." (1)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." (2)  4.00 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"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." (1)  3.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil." (1)  3.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
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