George Orwell ,quotes

Probably the battle of Waterlo...

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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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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No one can look back on his sc...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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Those who 'abjure' violence ca...

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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To walk through the ruined cit...

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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We of the sinking middle class...

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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The atom bombs are piling up i...

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

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Many people genuinely do not w...

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

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Prolonged, indiscriminate revi...

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.

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is...

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.

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If you have embraced a creed w...

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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There is hardly such a thing a...

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

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Part of the reason for the ugl...

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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I loathed the game, and since ...

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.

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The war is not meant to be won...

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

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The war is waged against its o...

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

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The Puritanical nonsense of ex...

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

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The secret of a successful res...

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

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He was conscious of nothing ex...

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

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It was a bright cold day in Ap...

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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