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Read through the most famous quotes from George Orwell
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ↗
#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. ↗
#philosophy #satire #wisdom #life
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. ↗
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.
