If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?

Quote by George Orwell

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

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

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting...

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance...

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance...

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who...

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship...

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely...

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely...

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war...

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war...

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and...

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and...

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High,...

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High,...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he...

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he...

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present...

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present...