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- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- 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 spurting out ink.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "1984", first sentence
- War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
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