All George Orwell Quotes
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell in
War
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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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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
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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
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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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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
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell in
Society
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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
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