George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
George Orwell quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased author born on Jun 25, 1903). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 102 we have for him.
“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”
“Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”
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