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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.