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Quotes by Eric Blair

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
– Eric Blair
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
– Eric Blair
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
– Eric Blair
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
– Eric Blair
Good writing is like a windowpane.
– Eric Blair
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
– Eric Blair
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
– Eric Blair
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
– Eric Blair
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
– Eric Blair
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
– Eric Blair
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent.
– Eric Blair
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
– Eric Blair
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon - Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already - lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.
– Eric Blair
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
– Eric Blair
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions.
– Eric Blair
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
– Eric Blair
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
– Eric Blair
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
– Eric Blair