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Humans Quotes by George Orwell

52 Humans quotes by George Orwell

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A lonely ghost uttering a truth that no one hears shows Orwell’s concern for human voice. The quotes argue that staying human matters even when it brings no practical gain, and they criticize war as the true source of inhumanity. They also warn that turning people into cogs of industry or education can erase empathy.

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A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

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It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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All human relationships must be purchased with money.

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I have no wish to take life, not even human life

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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

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The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be…

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You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against…

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If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places…

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Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me…

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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…

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The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while…

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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut…

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The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five…

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case…

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Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable…

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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let…

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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…

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There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not…

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You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is…

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Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of…

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All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in…

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As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils…

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The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive…

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When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free…

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By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole…

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human…

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The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is…

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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some…

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High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their…

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“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…