Tag: George Orwell
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell