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title: "41 Political Quotes By George Orwell"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-typical-socialist-a-prim-little-man-with-a-white-collar-job/)

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> [To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/to-accept-civilization-as-it-is-practically-means-accepting-decay/)

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> [You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/you-must-be-an-intellectual-a-normal-person-would-never-believe-a/)

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> [In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing-are-largely-the-defense-of-3/)

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> [The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-opinion-that-art-should-have-nothing-to-do-with-politics-is/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-not-desirable-that-the-proles-should-have-strong-political/)

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> [The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-four-great-motives-for-writing-prose-are-sheer-egoism-esthetic/)

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> [“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-our-age-there-is-no-such-thing-as-keeping-out-of-politics-all/)

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> [Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/good-novels-are-not-written-by-orthodoxy-sniffers-nor-by-people-who/)

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> [Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/most-revolutionaries-are-potential-tories-because-they-imagine-that/)

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> [All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/all-political-thinking-for-years-past-has-been-vitiated-in-the-same/)

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> [In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-my-opinion-nothing-has-contributed-more-to-the-corruption-of-the/)

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> [ \[T\]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/t-he-more-one-is-conscious-of-one-s-political-bias-the-more-chance/)

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> [ \[Political\] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-prose-consists-less-and-less-of-words-chosen-for-the-sake/)

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> [Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/power-worship-blurs-political-judgment-because-it-leads-almost/)

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> [It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-reminded-us-that-propaganda-in-some-form-or-other-lurks-in-every/)

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> [Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/winston-worked-in-the-records-department-a-single-branch-of-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/modern-writing-at-its-worst-does-not-consist-in-picking-out-words-for/)

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> [Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-writing-in-our-time-consists-almost-entirely-of/)

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> [In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing-are-largely-the-defense-of-2/)

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> [It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-is-difficult-for-a-statesman-who-still-has-a-political-future-to/)

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> [Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/men-use-up-their-lives-in-heart-breaking-political-struggles-or-get/)

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> [Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/modern-english-especially-written-english-is-full-of-bad-habits-which/)

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> [“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-curious-to-think-that-the-sky-was-the-same-for-everybody-in-2/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-mass-of-latin-words-falls-upon-the-facts-like-soft-snow-blurring-2/)

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> [“A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-party-member-is-expected-to-have-no-private-emotions-and-no/)

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> [Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/freedom-is-the-freedom-to-say-that-two-plus-two-make-four-if-that-is/)

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> [“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/all-issues-are-political-issues-and-politics-itself-is-a-mass-of-lies/)

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> [A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-socialist-united-states-of-europe-seems-to-me-the-only-worth-while/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-you-could-not-have-pure-love-or-pure-lust-nowadays-no-emotion-was/)

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> [“Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-language-and-with-variations-this-is-true-of-all-political/)

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> [Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/)

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> [“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-language-is-designed-to-make-its-lies-sound-truthful-and/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-chaos-is-connected-with-the-decay-of-language-one-can/)

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> [And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/)

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> [Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/using-the-word-political-in-the-widest-possible-sense-desire-to-push/)

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> [Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/day-by-day-and-almost-minute-by-minute-the-past-was-brought-up-to/)

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> [“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing-are-largely-the-defence-of/)

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> [But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-the-problems-of-perpetuating-a-hierarchical-society-go-deeper/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/where-this-age-differs-from-those-immediately-preceding-it-is-that-a/)

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> [In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-the-nineteenth-century-some-parts-of-the-world-were-unexplored-but/)

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> [It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-given-out-that-the-animals-there-practised-cannibalism/)

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> [“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-actual-writing-would-be-easy-all-he-had-to-do-was-to-transfer-to/)

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> [He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-felt-as-though-he-were-wandering-in-the-forests-of-the-sea-bottom/)

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> [“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-took-1-corinthians-chapter-thirteen-and-in-every-verse-wrote/)

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> [Happiness can exist only in acceptance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/happiness-can-exist-only-in-acceptance/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whitman-himself-accepted-a-great-deal-that-his-contemporaries-found/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-i-tell-you-winston-that-reality-is-not-external-reality-exists-in/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-people-under-the-sky-were-also-very-much-the-same-everywhere/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/windmill-or-no-windmill-he-said-life-would-go-on-as-it-had-always/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-creature-that-consumes-without-producing-he-does-not/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-bigger-the-fall-the-bigger-the-joke-it-would-be-better-fun-to/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

> [“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/any-writer-or-journalist-who-wants-to-retain-his-integrity-finds/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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