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George Orwell
George Orwell
British Author
Born: Jun 25, 1903
Died: Jan 21, 1950
Beings Does Good Human People War
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. George Orwell
God Atheist Embittered He Disbelieve Him Sort Does Dislike Personally Much Who
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell
Man Situation Virtue Destroy Triumph Him Forces Felt Does Still Exists Tragic Than Precisely Which
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell
Will Practice Society More Demand Always Than Get Human Human Beings Little Beings
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. George Orwell
Innocent Guilty Until Judged Always Proved Saints Should
Four legs good, two legs bad. George Orwell
Good Bad Legs Four Two
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. George Orwell
Age Feelings Seven Seems Adult True Instinctive Eight Your Expose
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell
War Walk Doubt Ruined Cities About Civilization Through Feel Continuity Germany Actual
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? George Orwell
Politics You Yourself Free Draw Embraced Advantage Surely Material Proves Expect Any Cannot Ordinary Which Appears Right Creed
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. George Orwell
Love People Human Being Some People Nothing Others Some More Does Than Human Being Ordinary Loving Mean Means
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell
Class Will Lose Sinking Nothing Further Dreadful Feared Struggles Without Sink Get May Middle Where Middle Class After Working Working-Class Belong
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell
War Progress Other Side No Difference More More Or Less Wins Reaction Makes Always Difference Which Less Such A Thing Who Stands Nearly Thing Hardly
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell
War Good Human Being Only Dead Human Being Good Human
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. George Orwell
Time Man Personality Sections Only His Intellectual Different Ordinary Ordinary Man Then Certain Even
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell
Education Doubt Corporal Punishment Carried Out Has-Been Classical Without Been Whether Successfully Ever
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. George Orwell
Me Flying Civilized Write Highly Overhead Trying Human Human Beings Beings
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. George Orwell
Poet Joyce Also
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. George Orwell
Truth Unhappy Back Say No-One Look Altogether Were His
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. George Orwell
War Destruction Labor Essential Human Act Products Lives Necessarily
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. George Orwell
Worth Those Stealing Well Dickens Authors Who
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. George Orwell
Atmosphere Above Prose Most Always Literature Forms Novel Orthodoxy Damaging
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