George Orwell
Country: India
Born: 25 June, 1903
Died: 21 January, 1950 (Aged 56)
George Orwell Biography
George Orwell (1903–1950) was an English novelist, essayist, and journalist known for his piercing blame of absolutism and social injustice. His writing shared political awareness with clear, powerful language. Orwell believed in honesty, individual freedom, and moral responsibility. His works continue to form how people think about truth, power, and society.
Famous Quotes by George Orwell
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
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Power is not a means; it is an end.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
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If you encourage oppressive methods, the time may come when you are forced to accept them.
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To survive, you often have to fight your own natures.
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The further a society ideas from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Every joke is a small revolution.
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One does not establish a repression in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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The spirit of being alive is to be flawed.
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Every generation believes itself to be cleverer than the one before.
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A people that elect corrupt politicians are not sufferers, but collaborators.
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Men are only as good as the circumstances allow them to be.
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Freedom is 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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Big Brother is Watching You.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a endless struggle.
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A writer’s job is to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to refute and destroy their own understanding of their history.
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Nationalism is power famine hardened by self-deception.
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The great enemy of clear language is dishonesty.
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Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well.
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A dirty joke is better than a dirty mind.
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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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He imagination, like certain wild animals, will not strain in detention.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and regularly disappointing.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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So long as people are content, they do not uprising.
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The past was flexible. The past never had been altered.
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Clear language requires honest thought.
