George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Sad

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”

People Night Names

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Thoughtful

“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”

Writing Lying Selfish

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Funny

“A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.”

Men Obesity Robust

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Philosophical

“There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.”

Believe Inspirational

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Philosophical

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

Inspirational Enemy

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Philosophical

“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”

Men Problem Answers

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Courageous

“If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.”

Doe Blow Complaining

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Philosophical

“The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.”

Men Jobs White

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Philosophical

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Thinking Men Moving

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Angry

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”

War Running Intelligent

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Courageous

“I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.”

Fighting Football Soccer

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Angry

“Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.”

Dog Cracks Circus

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