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We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us"Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "maki...more

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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, foll...more

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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inert...more

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But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him the horror was that he might also be wrong.

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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to s...more

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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about t...more

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It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from t...more

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Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

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[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witne...more