~ George Orwell Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.

[MysteRy]

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

[MysteRy]

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

[MysteRy]

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

[MysteRy]

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

[MysteRy]

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

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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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.