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

  George Orwell

  Literature, Stealing, Wells

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• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Europe, Political, United States

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, Doe, 1984 Important

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

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

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

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• All human relationships must be purchased with money.

  George Orwell

  Humans, Human Relations, Human Relationships

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

  George Orwell

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  "1984".

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• To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Fighting

  George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

  George Orwell

  Class, Wipe, Tendencies

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

  George Orwell

  Exercise, Normal, Cheese

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England”, p.353, Penguin UK

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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 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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• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Revenge, Punishment

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

  George Orwell

  Fear, War, Atheism

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

  George Orwell

  Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Funny, Witty, Religion

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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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• Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

  George Orwell

  Discrimination, Colour, Instance

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• 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?

  George Orwell

  Ordinary, Literature, Vegetarian

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Worry, Limits, Poverty

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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