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| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. | | Power | |
| Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. | | Uncategorized | |
| Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. | | Uncategorized | |
| Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. | | Uncategorized | |
| Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. | | Uncategorized | |
| Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent | | Uncategorized | |
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| Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. | | Sports | |
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| So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. | | Uncategorized | |
| Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. | | Uncategorized | |
| The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded | | Jokes | |
| The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. | | Society | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. | | Uncategorized | |
| The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi | | Books | |
