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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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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, a...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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From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

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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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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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In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood th...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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The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle...more