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"In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions but they are very powerful illusions."
from The Lion and The Unicorn
(February 1941)
GEORGE ORWELL
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."
from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
GEORGE ORWELL
22
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"Art and propaganda are never quite separable."
Literary Criticism II : Tolstoy and Shakespeare
broadcast 7 May 1941
The Listener, 5 Ju...
GEORGE ORWELL
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"You are free to be drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself."
from Burmese Days (1943)
GEORGE ORWELL
22
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"Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth."
from Fascism and Decomcracy
GEORGE ORWELL
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"The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity."
from The Prevention of Literature
Polemic, January 1946
GEORGE ORWELL
25
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George Orwell
George Orwell -or Eric Arthur Blair- was an English writer who covered different genres: fiction novels, essays, journalism and criticism.
He is world famous for his characteristic social criticism throughout his works, as well as his opposition to ...
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"Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past."
from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
GEORGE ORWELL
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"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudly vagueness."
from Politics and the English Language
Payments Book, 11 Dece...
GEORGE ORWELL
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"What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be trutfully written."
from Looking Back on the Spanish War (1943)
GEORGE ORWELL
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In this compilation of essays, reviews and excerpts from his novels, George Orwell examines what truth is for him and the dangers that certain political positions unravel.
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