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War is evil, but it is often ...

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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Oceania was at war with Euras...

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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The very concept of objective...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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Early in life I had noticed t...

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

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Man is the only creature that...

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

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Every war when it comes, or b...

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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As with the Christian religio...

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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To survive it is often necess...

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

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Whatever is funny is subversi...

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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War is peace. Freedom is slav...

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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Doublethink means the power o...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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Each generation imagines itse...

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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At fifty everyone has the fac...

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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Not to expose your true feeli...

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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It is almost universally felt...

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

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Probably the battle of Waterl...

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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If you have embraced a creed ...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

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The intellectual is different...

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

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy i...

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell 848 quotes

Part of the reason for the ug...

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.

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