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Take Quotes by George Orwell
- 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…
- The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and…
- Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
- A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
- Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take…
- Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
- So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and…
- It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as…
- The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
- Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to…
- The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses…
- I have no wish to take life, not even human life
- But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to…
- The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
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