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George Orwell

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.


— George Orwell


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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.


— George Orwell


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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.


— George Orwell


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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.


— George Orwell


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Big Brother is watching you.


— George Orwell


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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.


— George Orwell


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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.


— George Orwell


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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.


— George Orwell


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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


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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.


— George Orwell


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Did you know about George Orwell?

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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