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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5485/">Quotes by <em>Orwell, George</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely-admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

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"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."

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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

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

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"To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous."

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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

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