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George Orwell

George Orwell

Profession: Author
Nationality: British

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The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.

All the habits of Man are evil.

Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same time everyone claims that he, in some mysterious way, is exempt from it. Snobbishness is one of those vices which we can discern in everyone else but never in ourselves.

In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable".

The more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

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