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Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
– George Orwell, 1984

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
– George Orwell

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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
– George Orwell

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
– George Orwell

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
– George Orwell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
– George Orwell

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
– George Orwell

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
– George Orwell

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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
– George Orwell

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Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
– George Orwell

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
– George Orwell

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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
– George Orwell

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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
– George Orwell

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Big Brother is Watching You.
– George Orwell

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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
– George Orwell

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
– George Orwell

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Four legs good, two legs bad.
– George Orwell

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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
– George Orwell

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

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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

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