George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
George Orwell quotes and sayings page 5 (deceased author born on Jun 25, 1903). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 102 we have for him.
“Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”
“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, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”
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