George Orwell

"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate." - Nineteen Eighty-Four

"It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery. But a sort of mechanizing process can already be seen at work in the film and radio, in publicity and propaganda, and in the lower reaches of journalism." The Prevention of Literature, January 1946

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"Tolerance and decency are deeply rooted in England, but they are not indestructible, and they have to be kept alive by conscious effort." - George Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm

"The basic error of this school of thought is its contempt for the common man." In George Orwell’s essay on James Burnham, we see him beginning to formulate the ideas behind Nineteen Eighty-Four. Read more with Orwell Daily: orwell.substack.com/p/the-basic-er… @TheOrwellPrize

How do you make the perfect cup of tea? ☕️ Orwell had strong opinions, even during rationing. In 1946, with 2 oz of tea per head a week, he insisted: “One strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones.” Read A Nice Cup of Tea ↓ orwell.substack.com/p/all-true-tea…

"I watched a man hanged once. There was no question that everybody concerned knew this to be a dreadful, unnatural action." Sign up to Orwell Daily for curated highlights from Orwell's legendary journalism: orwell.substack.com/p/no-one-or-no…

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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - Notes on Nationalism Sign up to Orwell Daily for highlights from Orwell's legendary journalism, delivered "on the day" 👇

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"The best books of any one age have always been written from several different viewpoints, some of them palpably more false than others." - Politics vs. Literature, October 1946 #Orwell #OrwellQuotes @TheOrwellPrize

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Our society is not only so arranged that if you have money you can buy luxuries with it. After all, that is what money is for. It is also so arranged that if you don’t have money you pay for it at every hour of the day with petty humiliations and totally unnecessary discomforts.

"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual." George Orwell, 28 April 1944

We caved (we love Big Brother). George doesn't look too happy about it. #Orwell #AI #ActionFigure #Orwellian

"So long as democracy exists, even its very imperfect English form, totalitarianism is in deadly danger." George Orwell's "The Lion and the Unicorn" was first published #OTD in 1941. Read an extract today on our S*bstack serial (link in the thread).

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"By the way the world is actually shaping, it may well be that war will become permanent." As I Please, 2 February 1945

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” George Orwell's essay ‘Notes on Nationalism’ was first published in Polemic in October 1945. Read our extract today with Orwell Daily: substack.com/home/post/p-15…

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“Is it not rather humiliating to be told that a few years before the war a remote town like Reykjavik had a better display of British books than any English town of comparable size?” 20 October 1944. Read the full piece in the link below 👇