George Orwell

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, best known for his works "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four", which explore dystopian societies and totalitarian regimes. Through his writing, Orwell made significant contributions to literature and political thought, addressing themes of social injustice, surveillance, and the abuse of power.

In a society where everyone is guilty, the only crime is getting caught.

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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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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life.

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Big Brother is watching you

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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Every 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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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

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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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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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George Orwell (1945). "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", p.112, Secker & Warburg

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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In times of deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

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George Orwell (1949). "Nineteen Eighty-Four", p. 102, Secker & Warburg

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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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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George Orwell (1949). "1984", p.252, Secker & Warburg