Tag: George Orwell
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell
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In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell
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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.
George Orwell
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell