Tag: George Orwell
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell