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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

George Orwell

Man

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

Liberty

Vigilance

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

George Orwell

God

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Happiness

Acceptance

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

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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

George Orwell

Life

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

Worth