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George Orwell

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Big Brother is watching you.


— George Orwell


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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.


— George Orwell


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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.


— George Orwell


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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


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


— George Orwell


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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.


— George Orwell


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


— George Orwell


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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.


— George Orwell


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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.


— George Orwell


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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.


— George Orwell


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Did you know about George Orwell?

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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