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I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.


George Orwell


#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.


George Orwell


#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE


George Orwell


#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.


George Orwell


#chess #orwell #philosophy #mysticism

...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.


George Orwell


#george-orwell #life






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