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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
By George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
By George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
By George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
By George Orwell
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
By George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
By George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
By George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
By George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
By George Orwell
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
By George Orwell
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
By George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them
By George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
By George Orwell
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
By George Orwell
The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
By George Orwell
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.
By George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
By George Orwell
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, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
By George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
By George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
By George Orwell