All George Orwell Quotes
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
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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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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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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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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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