George Orwell Quotes — Page 24

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“...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.”

Giving Politics Negative

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Wise

“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”

Men Intelligent Personality

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Angry

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

Wisdom Marketing

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Angry

“You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.”

Believe Political

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Funny

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

Children Time Humorous

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Sad

“Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.”

Water Blood Hunger

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Funny

“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”

Book Jobs Feelings

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Philosophical

“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?”

Giving Intelligent Atheism

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Philosophical

“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”

Literature Equality Reform

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Melancholic

“It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.”

Way Half Tragedy

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Angry

“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.”

Country Party Struggle

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Angry

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

Art Attitude Should Have

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