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Men Quotes by George Orwell

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Men can only be highly civilized while other men, less civilized, guard and feed them. Orwell’s lines point out the absurdity of restating the obvious, the thinness inside a fat body, and the idea that a man may be the last of his kind. They also show how loyalty, happiness, and even speech can reveal a man’s true nature.

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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

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The more men you've had, the more I love you.

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When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

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It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it…

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

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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm…

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One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do…

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The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as…

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To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and…

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In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are…

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Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever…

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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 you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books…

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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an…

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No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who…

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For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels…

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Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They…

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I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union…

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He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

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The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim…

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You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved…

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become…

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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A…

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Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

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All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

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After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply…

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The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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“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.

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

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.…