In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell Quotes
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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, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
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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.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.