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Type: Author Quotes Category: British Author Quotes Date of Birth: June 25, 1903 Date of Death: January 21, 1950 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: George Orwell Related Authors: C. S. Lewis Virginia Woolf James Allen George Eliot Neil Gaiman J. G. Ballard Jackie Collins Antonia Fraser |
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The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
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George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. George Orwell 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 The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. George Orwell To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. George Orwell To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell 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 War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. George Orwell War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? George Orwell |
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