Tag: George Orwell
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell
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War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George Orwell
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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.
George Orwell
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell