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George Orwell

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.


— George Orwell


#assume #be happy #happiness #happy #life

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.


— George Orwell


#madness

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.


— George Orwell


#change

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.


— George Orwell


#follows #four #freedom #granted #make

Four legs good, two legs bad.


— George Orwell


#four #good #legs #two

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.


— George Orwell


#fighting #hatred #invariably #lies #people

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.


— George Orwell


#truth #courage

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.


— George Orwell


#aging #life #age

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.


— George Orwell


#political-correctness #enemy

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.


— George Orwell


#absurd






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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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