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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of for...more

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?.... In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodo...more

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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been rename...more

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Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words...more

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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept d...more

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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves...more

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The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty ye...more

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic sociali...more

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Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clea...more

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England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.