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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

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The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely tha...more

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It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the impor...more

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and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

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I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four le...more

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If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working accor...more

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The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly the...more

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When one thinks of all the people who support or have supported Fascism, one stands amazed at their diversity. What a crew! Think of a programme which...more

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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the un...more

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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply dis...more

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic sociali...more

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A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of...more

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What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the...more

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Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an ...more