George Orwell Quotes

767 quotes · Writer, Journalist

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George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Spiritual

“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

Eye Voice Doors

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Angry

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

Writing Book Money

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Hopeful

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

Darkness Nineteen

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Philosophical

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

Judging Atheism

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Philosophical

“Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

Long Use Simile

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Philosophical

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.”

Food Eating

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Philosophical

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

Autobiography Trusted

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Philosophical

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

Life Is Emotion Safe

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Philosophical

“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.”

Drug Machines Surrender

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Determined

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

Problem Answers Motto

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Courageous

“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?”

Thinking Mean Years

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Courageous

“Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.”

Men Gun Bully

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