British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell
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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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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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 essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
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