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George Orwell on lefty/liberalism :- "the emotional shallowness of a left intelligentsia that lives in a world of ideas not reality, severed from the common culture of the country.

Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries

And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened -if, indeed, it did happen.

Doubtless any horoscope seems true if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity.

February your grandmother!

The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops:

Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. VII

His eye fell upon the aspidistra. Two years he had inhabited this vile room; two mortal years in which nothing had been accomplished.

And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.

She was italicising every other word, with that deadly, glittering brightness that a woman puts on when she is dodging a moral obligation. He

The clerks are French, and, like most French people, are in a bad temper till they have eaten their lunch.

Georges Kopp, on his periodical tours of inspection, was quite frank with us. 'This is not a war,' he used to say, 'it is a comic opera with an occasional death.

The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage.

But of course it was an American paper. The Americans always go one better on any kinds of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering, or theosophy.

Meanwhile the thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

He had lived on this filthy imitation of food till his own mind and body were compounded of inferior stuff. It was malnutrition and not any native vice that had destroyed his manhood.

there can hardly be a town in the South of England where you can throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.

he explained how anxious he had been to earn his freedom.