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Upon 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…
- 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…
- All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
- Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
- So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
- We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
- A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
- Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding…
- In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings…
- The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
- On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the…
- 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,…
- Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist…
- Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
- The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall…
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ½ that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken…
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