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George Orwell

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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.


— George Orwell


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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.


— George Orwell


#about #actual #cities #civilization #continuity

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.


— George Orwell


#custard pie #dirty #every #funny #joke

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.


— George Orwell


#exist #happiness #only

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


— George Orwell


#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.


— George Orwell


#catholic #grown #really #up

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


— George Orwell


#allows #development #good #only #technical

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


— George Orwell


#advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.


— George Orwell


#dead #good #good human #human #human being






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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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