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• The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

  George Orwell

  Patriotic, Justice, Democracy

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

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  Stupidity, Instinct, Cowardice

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

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  Two, Evil, Choices

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

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  Art, Attitude, Should Have

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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• It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

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  Fall, People, Over You

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

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  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

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  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

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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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  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

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  Running, Food, Gun

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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• The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

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  Tombs, Hospitals

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

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  Keeping Secrets, Nineteen, Kept Secrets

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

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• Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

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  Strong, Simple, Gun

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

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  Safe, Emotion, Life Is

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• I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

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  Fashion, Lying, Believe

  "Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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• It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Civilization, Hatred

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.203, Arcturus Publishing

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• Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

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  Stupidity, Difficult

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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  Happiness, Acceptance, Literature

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• And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Book, Reading

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

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  Modern, Frills

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

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  Insanity, Minorities, Lunatic

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

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  Reality, Skulls, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.569, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

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  Break, Bigs, Ifs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

  George Orwell

  Power, Self, Deception

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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