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George Orwell
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I have been redpilling people since 1984.
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.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
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.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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 best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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.