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• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Cracks, Circus

  "The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945".

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• Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Enemy

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

  George Orwell

  Food, Bags, Eating

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.62, Jester House Publishing

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• This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Half, Tyranny

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

  George Orwell

  Love, Men, Faces

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• Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

  George Orwell

  Party, Past, Expression

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

  George Orwell

  Children, People, Normal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, Doe, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good writing is like a windowpane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Good Writing, Thrive

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Humor, Wish

  "The Art of Donald McGill" (1941)

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• To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

  George Orwell

  Art, Latin, Struggle

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• If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

  George Orwell

  Past, Mind, World

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

  George Orwell

  Class, Wipe, Tendencies

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

  George Orwell

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  "1984".

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• ...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

  George Orwell

  War, Nineteen, Position

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.144, Arcturus Publishing

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• Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  George Orwell

  Class, Hatred, Patriotism

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

  George Orwell

  Soccer, Football, Fighting

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

  George Orwell

  People, Looks, Want

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Doors, Voice

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

  George Orwell

  Love, Betrayal, Real

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

  George Orwell

  Drug, Machines, Surrender

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.135, Jester House Publishing

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