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Inspirational Quotes by George Orwell

53 Inspirational quotes by George Orwell

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Orwell warns that people consume far more than they create, and that plain language serves truth better than fancy words. He stresses that liberty matters far beyond symbols, and that even animals deserve a reason before they kill. He also notes that the cheapest books often cost us less in value.

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All art is propaganda.

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No one is patriotic about taxes.

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Weakness is strength.

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The object of power is power.

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“That is her style of beauty.”

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Sanity is not statistical.

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The more intelligent, the less sane

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The belly comes before the soul.

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A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

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Never use a long word where a short one will do.

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There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

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Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

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The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

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Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

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

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one…

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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

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Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to…

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The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

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Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.

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The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

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The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,…

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We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that…

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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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“In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was…

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“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in…

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too…

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Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

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Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

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The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

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By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.

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Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

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If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

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Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

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Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became…

“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…

“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just…

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally…

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

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