George Orwell Quotes - Page 15

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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• The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

  George Orwell

  Tombs, Hospitals

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• The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

  George Orwell

  Enemy, Felt, Untruth

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

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• It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

  George Orwell

  Loss, Mysterious Things, Mind

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

  George Orwell

  Revolutionary, Anarchist, Should

  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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• In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

  George Orwell

  Art, Writing, Math

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

  George Orwell

  Money, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

  George Orwell

  Energy, Tests, Get Money

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Skulls, Long

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.76, Jester House Publishing

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• The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

  George Orwell

  Liberty, Would Be, Poverty

  George Orwell (1947). “The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White”, London, Collins

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• A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

  George Orwell

  Regret, Grandchildren, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

  George Orwell

  Family, Insulting, Phrases

  The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England"

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• ...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

  George Orwell

  Men, Rough, Civilized

  "Rudyard Kipling" (1942). This is the closest passage in Orwell's writings that has been found to the following quotation popularly attributed to him: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf " (or sometimes, "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us").

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• But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

  George Orwell

  Morning, Horse, Party

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

  George Orwell

  Consequence

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

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  People, Temptation, Saint

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Hands, Egypt

  "Nineteen Eighty-four".

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• You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that 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 Paty, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, People, Age

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  George Orwell

  Class, Hatred, Patriotism

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Drug

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.31, Arcturus Publishing

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• You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

  George Orwell

  Rebel

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.118, Arcturus Publishing

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Struggle, Class

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 13

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• Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Orthodoxy, Unconsciousness

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

  George Orwell

  Answers, Problem, Motto

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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