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GEORGE ORWELL Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. GEORGE ORWELL We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men... GEORGE ORWELL War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. GEORGE ORWELL The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. GEORGE ORWELL There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. GEORGE ORWELL Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. GEORGE ORWELL Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re... GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ... GEORGE ORWELL Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. GEORGE ORWELL As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. GEORGE ORWELL We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be... GEORGE ORWELL Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improve... GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. GEORGE ORWELL Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which i... GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. GEORGE ORWELL Happiness can exist only in acceptance. GEORGE ORWELL All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. GEORGE ORWELL Myths which are believed in tend to become true. GEORGE ORWELL If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t... GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. GEORGE ORWELL England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte... GEORGE ORWELL For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story... GEORGE ORWELL She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed GEORGE ORWELL The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally. GEORGE ORWELL Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros. GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b... GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t... GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal... GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte... GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi... GEORGE ORWELL Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its ow... GEORGE ORWELL