George Orwell quotes - page 11

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them. (George Orwell)
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. View quote
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England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. View quote
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By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship. View quote
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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. View quote
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. View quote
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You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. View quote
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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. View quote
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For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. View quote
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. View quote
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. (George Orwell)
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. View quote
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Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. View quote
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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. View quote
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Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. View quote
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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. View quote
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Good writing is like a windowpane. View quote
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. View quote
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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. View quote
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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? View quote
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. (George Orwell)
Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. View quote
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. View quote
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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. View quote
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To die hating them, that was freedom. View quote
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