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George Orwell

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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.


— George Orwell


#animals #man #satirical #man

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.


— George Orwell


#imagination

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.


— George Orwell


#being human #does #essence #human #perfection

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.


— George Orwell


#hear #liberty #means #people #right

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.


— George Orwell


#secret

Every 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


#imagination

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.


— George Orwell


#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.


— George Orwell


#beds #behalf #men #night #only

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.


— George Orwell


#beauty

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.


— George Orwell


#human-nature #humour #philosophy #art






About 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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