British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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Big Brother is watching you.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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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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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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