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- "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.
- One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
- The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
- 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…
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in…
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
- I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
- No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through…
- There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
- Never use a long word where a short one will do.
- Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the…
- 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…
- When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon…
- The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
- Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip-
- There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
- All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
- A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
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