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Title: ~ George Orwell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:09:57 AM
George Orwell Quotes

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An English author and journalist.
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.

Here are some famous quotes by George Orwell.

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Big Brother is watching you.
Title: Re: ~ George Orwell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:10:34 AM
At 50 everyone has the face he deserves.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:11:06 AM
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:11:37 AM
International sport is war without shooting.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:12:09 AM
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:12:39 AM
When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:13:08 AM
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:13:37 AM
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:14:05 AM
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:14:41 AM
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:15:09 AM
Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:15:39 AM
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:16:07 AM
If you want a vision of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:16:41 AM
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Title: Re: ~ George Orwell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:17:09 AM
If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:17:37 AM
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:18:08 AM
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:18:41 AM
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:19:15 AM
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:19:49 AM
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:20:30 AM
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:21:11 AM
No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:21:51 AM
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:22:30 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:23:08 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:23:38 AM
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Title: Re: ~ George Orwell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:24:11 AM
Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Title: Re: ~ George Orwell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:24:44 AM
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.
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Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2014, 07:25:11 AM
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.