 So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
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People Sleep Peaceably in their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to do Violence on their Behalf.
George Orwell
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a life-belt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive.
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Winston Smith, 1984
In a time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States …
George Orwell
Notes on Nationalism
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