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Kind Quotes by George Orwell
- Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the…
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking…
- The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and…
- In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
- 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…
- So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
- It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim…
- He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into…
- Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
- When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
- He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.…
- Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of…
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