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George Orwell Quotes and Quotations
 All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell | Animals Quotes  Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. - George Orwell | Homo Sapiens Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Human Relations Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Life Quotes Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. - George Orwell | Peace Quotes In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues. - George Orwell | Politics Quotes Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell | Power Quotes Liberal - a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell | Power Quotes To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. - George Orwell | Reason Quotes Big Brother is watching you. - George Orwell | Revolution and Reform Quotes International sport is war without shooting. - George Orwell | Sport Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Virtue Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Virtue Quotes The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell | War Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Writers and Writing Quotes Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell | The Present Quotes 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. - George Orwell | Right Quotes When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. - George Orwell | Courage Quotes When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. - George Orwell | Courage Quotes The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - George Orwell | Perfection Quotes 
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