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People Quotes by George Orwell

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Orwell’s line about hunger shows how looking famished can invite hostility. He points out that people with tiny, insecure incomes share the same boat and should stand together. He also warns that when language is twisted, it can shape the way we think, and that most lives are marked by suffering.

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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

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“the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens”

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

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

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

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Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

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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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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have…

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

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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept…

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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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There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people…

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If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who…

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I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime 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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By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to…

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This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside…

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The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting…

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All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the…

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Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what…

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And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,…

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... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when…

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[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of…

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In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…

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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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In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in…

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If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people.…

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Rich people are poor people with money.

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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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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you…

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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very…

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Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive…

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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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