Tag: George Orwell
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell
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Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell
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I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.
George Orwell