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- It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
- To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,…
- The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
- 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…
- England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change…
- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
- I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can…
- Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply…
- 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…
- 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 what…
- The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it…
- If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not…
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of…
- Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the…
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were,…
- It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going…
- Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the…
- Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a…
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of…
- The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
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