Tag: George Orwell
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell