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" To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. "

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" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "

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

" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "

" No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. "

" The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. "

" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "

" On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. "

" Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. "

" For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. "

" Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. "

" The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. "

" It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. "

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

" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "

" Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

" Big Brother is watching you. "

" Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. "

" 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. "

" Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. "

" Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "

" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "

" There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. "

" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "

" As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. "

" But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "

" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "