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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

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

#control #describing #england #family #members

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

#emotional #important #less #possession #sincerity

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. ↗

— George Orwell

#everyone #face #fifty

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ↗

— George Orwell

#early #event #ever #had #i

Four legs good, two legs bad. ↗

— George Orwell

#four #good #legs #two

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

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#assuming #both #cannot #catholic #communist

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. ↗

— Ovid

#fast #horse #horses #never #other