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George Orwell Quotes - Page 23

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The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No

The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

Sleep, Animal, Wings

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

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.

Fun, World Suffering, People

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

Action, Moved

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.

Fall, Home, Russia

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Pain, Believe, Hard Work

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Block, Men, Stones

Coming Up for Air pt. 1, ch. 3 (1939) See Cyril Connolly 3

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

Cost, London, Facts

George Orwell (1972). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Envy, Suffering, Tragedy

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

Cures, Sane, Knows

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

Cat, Done, Found

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Art, Book, Literature

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Civilization, Clothes, Gestures

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

Dream, Heart, Looks

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

Party, Fighting, Warrior

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Acceptance

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

Ideas, Together, Indestructible

George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.55, Dramatic Publishing

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

Fear, War, Atheism

"1984".

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

"Nineteen Eighty-Four".

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

Pigs, Needs, Being There

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Peace, War, Essentials

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Past, Agreement, Evil

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

1984 Important, Neurologists, Abolish

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

War, Survival, Consciousness

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Ideas, Age, Peculiar

"Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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