Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.
George Orwell
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To accept an unorthodoxy is al...
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
George Orwell
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The English are not happy unle...
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
George Orwell
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All art is propaganda; on the ...
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
George Orwell
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Take pleasure in the impact of...
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
George Orwell
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The four great motives for wri...
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
George Orwell
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Your worst enemy, he reflected...
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
George Orwell
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No one believes more firmly th...
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
George Orwell
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So long as they (the Proles) c...
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
George Orwell
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The enemy of the moment always...
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
George Orwell
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Until they became conscious th...
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George Orwell
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Under the spreading chestnut t...
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
George Orwell
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So long as I remain alive and ...
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.
George Orwell
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We are all capable of believin...
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
George Orwell
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That rifle on the wall of the ...
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
George Orwell
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And if all others accepted the...
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedЂ'if all records told the same taleЂ'then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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Day by day and almost minute b...
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
George Orwell
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The party is not concerned wit...
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.
George Orwell
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Anyone who challenges the prev...
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
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The very word 'war', therefore...
The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.
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