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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

George Orwell

Real, War, Practice

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

George Orwell

Mistake, Party, Reality

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.189, Arcturus Publishing

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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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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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Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

George Orwell

Brother, Party, Doe

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

George Orwell

Long, Donkey, Long Time

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

George Orwell

Writing, People, Frightened

"Essays".

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

Lying, Cities, Police

1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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The more intelligent, the less sane

George Orwell

Intelligent, Sane, Ignorance In 1984

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

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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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Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

George Orwell

Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

George Orwell

Country, War, Democracy

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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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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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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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.

George Orwell

Running, Fear, Animal

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Four legs good, two legs bad.

George Orwell

Animal, Two, Legs

Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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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 was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

George Orwell

Wall, Lying, Heart

George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

George Orwell

Moving, Men, Thinking

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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Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

George Orwell

Dirty, Reading, Thinking

George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker

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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

George Orwell

Mind, Abyss, Poetry Is

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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Good writing is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

Writing, Good Writing, Thrive

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By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

George Orwell

Believe, Mean, People

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

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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

George Orwell

Insanity, Minorities, Lunatic

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

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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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Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
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