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

George Orwell

equality

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

George Orwell

equality | animals

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Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The c... - MORE Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

malevolence | anger | appearances

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He is as antisocial as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in which they can flourish has something wrong ... - MORE He is as antisocial as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it.

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Dali, Salvador

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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably l... - MORE Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

autobiography

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The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class w... - MORE The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class world, and everything outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.

George Orwell

bourgeoisie, the

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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

writers and writing | Dickens, Charles

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Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society;... - MORE Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

George Orwell

revolutionaries

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All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English... - MORE All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

George Orwell

foreigners

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

George Orwell

technology

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