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“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”

- George Orwell

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“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

Source/Notes: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays (2009 edition), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - ISBN: 9780547417769

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“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.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Polemic (March 1947) - Full text online]

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“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

- George Orwell

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Animal Farm (1945), Ch. 10

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“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.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: "London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)

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“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

- George Orwell

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“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Orwell's England (2001 edition), Penguin UK - ISBN: 9780141926636

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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

- George Orwell

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“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Extracts from a Manuscript Notebook (1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4 (1968)

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“Big Brother is watching you.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: 1984: (2014 edition), Living Letters

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“Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.”

- George Orwell

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Attributed. Variation of izquotes.com/quote/139716

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