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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

~George Orwell

Topics: Hunger Nationalism Power Self-Deception Tempered

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

~George Orwell

Topics: Controls Future Past Present Who

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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

~George Orwell

Topics: Even Fire Hot Kind Know Left-Wing Much People Playing Thought Who

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

~George Orwell

Topics: After Before Each Each Generation Generation Intelligent Itself More Than Wiser

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

~George Orwell

Topics: Boot Face Forever Future Human Human Face Imagine Vision Want You

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

~George Orwell

Topics: Development Good Men Only Technical Them

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

~George Orwell

Topics: Civilization Evil Evolve Good Good And Evil He Heaven Hell Independent Likely Mankind System Unless Which

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

~George Orwell

Topics: Anything Hear Liberty Means People Right Tell Want

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

~George Orwell

Topics: Depth Duty First Intelligent Men Now Obvious Sunk Which

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

~George Orwell

Topics: Aims Between Clear Enemy Exhausted Gap Great Great Enemy Idioms Ink Insincerity Instinctively Language Like Long Out Real Turns Were Words

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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