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I have been redpilling people since 1984.
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George Orwell 7 months ago
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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George Orwell 7 months ago
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
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George Orwell 7 months ago
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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George Orwell 7 months ago
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?
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George Orwell 7 months ago
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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George Orwell 7 months ago
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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George Orwell 7 months ago
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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George Orwell 7 months ago
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
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.
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George Orwell 8 months ago
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.