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- The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the…
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
- I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the…
- When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement…
- The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is…
- There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
- Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are…
- Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual…
- The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
- He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind…
- Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the…
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot…
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are…
- The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to…
- The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty…
- You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
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