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1. George Orwell
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell 1903-50: Animal Farm (1945)
2. George Orwell
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face---for ever.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
3. George Orwell
big brother is watching you.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
4. George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell 1903-50: in Polemic January 1946
5. George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
6. George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
7. George Orwell
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W. H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
George Orwell 1903-50: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
8. George Orwell
Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell 1903-50: Shooting an Elephant (1950) 'Politics and the English Language'
9. George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
10. George Orwell
Four legs good, two legs bad.
George Orwell 1903-50: Animal Farm (1945)
11. George Orwell
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell 1903-50: notebook, 17 April 1949
12. George Orwell
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
George Orwell 1903-50: Coming up For Air (1939)
13. George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.
George Orwell 1903-50: Shooting an Elephant (1950) 'I Write as I Please'
14. George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
15. John Major
Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and---as George Orwell said---old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.
John Major 1943- : speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, 22 April 1993
16. George Orwell
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.
George Orwell 1903-50: The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
17. George Orwell
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 1903-50: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
18. George Orwell
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell 1903-50: attributed
19. George Orwell
We of the sinking middle class...may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.
George Orwell 1903-50: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
20. George Orwell
It resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons...A family with the wrong members in control---that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell 1903-50: The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
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