George Orwell Quotes About Values
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself
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Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
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How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
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The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
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The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
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