George Orwell Quotes - Page 15

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• I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Witty, Religion

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• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  George Orwell

  Independent, Civilization, Evil

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• You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

  George Orwell

  Rebel

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.118, Arcturus Publishing

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• Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

  George Orwell

  Art, Attitude, Book

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
  WAR IS PEACE
  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Ignorance

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Simile, Figures Of Speech

  George Orwell (2013). “Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Long, Broken

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

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• The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts.
  The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.
  The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.
  And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.
  their names, in Newspeak:
  Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

  George Orwell

  Art, War, Memorable

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  George Orwell

  Love, Children, Adults

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

  George Orwell

  Happiness, Work, Play

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

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• The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

  George Orwell

  Real, Fighting, Night

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Lakes, Sea

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

  George Orwell

  Love, Pain, Hard Work

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.358, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  George Orwell

  War, Victory, Structure

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• It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

  George Orwell

  Loss, Mysterious Things, Mind

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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• Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

  George Orwell

  Money, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

  George Orwell

  Speech, Use, Metaphor

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

  George Orwell

  Energy, Tests, Get Money

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

  George Orwell

  Literature, Stealing, Wells

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

  George Orwell

  Country, England, Ashamed

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

  George Orwell

  Regret, Grandchildren, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

  George Orwell

  Language, Foolish, Easier

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

  George Orwell

  Giving, Politics, Negative

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Causes, Farms

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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