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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- Good Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writing is like a windowpane.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- Great Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
- Big Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Brother is watching you.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- Irritating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- Battles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
- Fair Amount
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- Communist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four legs good, two legs bad.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
- Lesser
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
- Catholic
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
- Believed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- Joyce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
- Nov 07, 2020
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020