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" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "
George Orwell
Well
Worth
Stealing
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" I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. "
George Orwell
Price
Think
Sometimes
" Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. "
George Orwell
Power
Hunger
Tempered
" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "
George Orwell
Life
Men
Be Happy
" Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. "
George Orwell
Only
Technical
Men
" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "
George Orwell
Democracy
Country
Fear
" No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. "
George Orwell
Revolution
Manners
Equality
" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "
George Orwell
Joke
Dirty
Mental
" The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. "
George Orwell
War
Quickest Way
Lose
" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "
George Orwell
Dislike
Much
Who
" Good writing is like a windowpane. "
George Orwell
Like
Writing
Good
" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "
George Orwell
Time
Man
Personality
" The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. "
George Orwell
Labor
Products
Human
" Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. "
George Orwell
Always
Will
Human
" Four legs good, two legs bad. "
George Orwell
Bad
Four
Good
" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
George Orwell
Manual
Creation
Workers
" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
George Orwell
History
Truth Is
World
" On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. "
George Orwell
Good
Time
Human Beings
" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
George Orwell
Tell
Right
Want
" People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "
George Orwell
Peace
Night
Men
" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "
George Orwell
Words
Sports
Violence
" Myths which are believed in tend to become true. "
George Orwell
Which
Become
Believed
" One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. "
George Orwell
Dictatorship
Revolution
Order
" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "
George Orwell
Christian
Religion
Socialism
" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "
George Orwell
Inside
Man
Thin
" We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. "
George Orwell
Working
Class
Nothing
" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "
George Orwell
Intelligent
Way
War
" Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. "
George Orwell
Some
Political
Improvement
" The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "
George Orwell
Best
Tell
Know
" Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. "
George Orwell
Self-Defense
Act
Against
" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "
George Orwell
Hatred
Politics
Age