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A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

George Orwell

Mind, Duty, Knows

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

George Orwell

Real, Responsibility, Decision

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

George Orwell

Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

George Orwell

Truth, Intelligent, Political

"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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The organizing principal for any culture is War.

George Orwell

War, Culture, Principal

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The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

George Orwell

Book, Past, Reality

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

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Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

George Orwell

World, Slavery, May

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

George Orwell

Brother, Struggle, Victory

"Animal Farm and 1984".

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell

Love, Heart, Mean

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

George Orwell

Book, Cheaper

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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The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

George Orwell

Death, Moments, Certain

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.211, Arcturus Publishing

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The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

George Orwell

Animal, Slavery, Misery

David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.29, Barron's Educational Series

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

War, Civilization, Cities

1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

George Orwell

Naval, Dictatorship

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

George Orwell

Writing, People, Political

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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Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

George Orwell

Views, Hypocrisy, Behaviour

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

George Orwell

Pain, Effort, Special

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

George Orwell

History, Battle, Cavalry

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

George Orwell

People, Levels, Starvation

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But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

George Orwell

Strong, Fall, Self Confidence

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1306, Penguin UK

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High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

George Orwell

Animal, Men, Enemy

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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Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

George Orwell

Laughter, Integrity, Joy

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.292, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

George Orwell

Country, War, America

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

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Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

George Orwell

Real, Men, Roots

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

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