George Orwell Quotes - Page 12

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• All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Propaganda

  1942 Diary entry,14 Mar.

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

  George Orwell

  Judging, Atheism, Saint

  Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Reflections on Gandhi"

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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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• Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

  George Orwell

  Democratic Socialism, Serious Work, Lines

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

  George Orwell

  Mind, Enemy, Records

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.96, Oberon Books

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• When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

  George Orwell

  Revolutionary, Fascists, Militia

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

  George Orwell

  Daughter, Writing, Way

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Love, Men, Faces

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  George Orwell

  Communication, Joints, Language

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• In the face of pain there are no heroes.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Hero, Faces

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

  George Orwell

  Autobiography, Disgraceful, Trusted

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

  George Orwell

  Religious, Spring, War

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

  George Orwell

  Stars, Eye, Cost

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

  George Orwell

  Beautiful, Language, Absurd

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Sports, War, Squash

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

  George Orwell

  Government, Punishment, People

  "Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell".

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• Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Successful, Artist

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

  George Orwell

  Stupidity, Difficult

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

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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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• The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

  George Orwell

  Warfare, Machines, Use

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.60, Dramatic Publishing

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• Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

  George Orwell

  Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Privacy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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