George Orwell Quotes

767 quotes · Writer, Journalist

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George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.”

War Suffering Military

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men”

Real Fighting Night

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Creative

“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”

Communication Language Joints

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Courageous

“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.”

Hypocrite Insult

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Creative

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

Mind Poetry Is

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Love

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”

Hair Smell Romantic

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Philosophical

“In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.”

People Government Punishment

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Philosophical

“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.”

Civilization Suicide Hatred

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Courageous

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

Animal Half Tyranny

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Courageous

“A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today”

Political Europe United States

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Courageous

“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.”

Would Be Liberty Poverty

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Philosophical

“The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.”

Class Tendencies Wipe

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