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    George Orwell

    Read through the most famous quotes from George Orwell




    So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #fire #hot #kind #know #left-wing

    What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗


    — George Orwell

    #fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

    Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #balance #fair #foolish #fun #get

    There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #believe #could #ideas #intelligent #intelligent person

    Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #bucket #inside #rattling #stick

    As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

    Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #nationalism #power #self-deception #tempered

    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

    #does #end #establish #makes #means

    The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

    A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗


    — George Orwell

    #control #describing #england #family #members






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    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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