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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Liberty, Literature

  1946 'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic, Jan.

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• The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

  George Orwell

  Issues, Discipline, Intellectual

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

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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Atheist, Catholic, Religion

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• The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

  George Orwell

  Modern, Frills

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• If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

  George Orwell

  Break, Bigs, Ifs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

  George Orwell

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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• Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Thinking, Orthodoxy

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

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Keeping Secrets, Nineteen, Kept Secrets

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

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• Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

  George Orwell

  Happiness, Acceptance, Literature

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• We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Skulls, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.569, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

  George Orwell

  Art, Attitude, Should Have

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

  George Orwell

  Running, Food, Gun

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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• Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

  George Orwell

  Men, Animal, Interest

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, House

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

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• At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

  George Orwell

  Agreement, Orthodoxy, Facts

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• Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

  George Orwell

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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

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• you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

  George Orwell

  Life, Regret, Decision

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• It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

  George Orwell

  Suicide, Civilization, Hatred

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.203, Arcturus Publishing

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• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

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• I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

  George Orwell

  Fashion, Lying, Believe

  "Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

  George Orwell

  Party, Reality, Views

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• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Men, Giving

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

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• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Safe, Emotion, Life Is

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