British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
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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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