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Quotes by George Orwell
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- 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, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- 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.
- It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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