All George Orwell Quotes
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.
George Orwell
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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