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Point Quotes by George Orwell
- 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 point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
- 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…
- The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same…
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,…
- Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
- The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on…
- I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and…
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
- Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies?…
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- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden