George Orwell Quotes

767 quotes · Writer, Journalist

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George Orwell Quotes

All Philosophical Angry Courageous Sad Wise 767 quotes · page 26 of 50

George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Love

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

Children Love Adults

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

Heard Heritage Sane

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Wise

“Good writing is like a windowpane.”

Writing Thrive Good Writing

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Angry

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

Men Animal

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Funny

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

Long Long Time

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Philosophical

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

Two Past Science

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Courageous

“While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.”

Country Two Games

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Creative

“People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.”

People Sleep Interesting

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Melancholic

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Thinking Men Perfection

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Philosophical

“You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”

Sound Darkness Assumption

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Heartbroken

“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.”

Joy Laughter Integrity

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Motivated

“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.”

Inspirational Motivational Leadership

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