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Biography : George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novelist, essayist and journalist. He was born in Motihari, British India.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: India
India

George Orwell - Quotes

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell /

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell /

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

action

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

freedom of expression

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell - Animal Farm /

freedom of expression

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language /

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell - Animal Farm /

others

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
George Orwell

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
George Orwell

Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell /

The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
George Orwell

If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
George Orwell

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language /

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

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