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George Orwell Quotes and Quotations
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more. Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Liberal - a power worshipper without power. To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. Big Brother is watching you. International sport is war without shooting. A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. 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 if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. 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, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. |