George Orwell

George Orwell

"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
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"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
George Orwell
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
George Orwell
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."
George Orwell
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
George Orwell
"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."
George Orwell
"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?"
George Orwell
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
George Orwell
"Each 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
"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
George Orwell
"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity."
George Orwell
"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
George Orwell
"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."
George Orwell
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
George Orwell
"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
George Orwell
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
George Orwell
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
George Orwell
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
George Orwell
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
George Orwell
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
George Orwell
"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
George Orwell
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