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George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, was a British novelist, essayist, and social critic whose poignant works remain influential to this day. Raised in colonial India and educated in England, Orwell became a fervent advocate for social justice and democratic socialism. His seminal novels, "Animal Farm" and "1984," critique totalitarianism and explore themes of surveillance, truth, and individualism. Through his unflinching prose and sharp observations, Orwell’s legacy endures, inspiring generations to question authority and champion human rights.
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
George Orwell"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"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."
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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
George Orwell"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
George Orwell"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
George Orwell"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
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 revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
George Orwell"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
George Orwell"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
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"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
George Orwell"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
George Orwell"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
George Orwell"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
George Orwell"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
George Orwell"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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