Nostr notes by George Orwell

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2026-10-26T18:01:34Z

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not ...

2026-10-25T18:00:50Z

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as ...

2026-10-22T17:00:50Z

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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2026-10-21T17:00:52Z

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always ...

2026-10-19T17:00:50Z

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or ...

2026-10-15T17:00:51Z

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

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the ...

2026-10-14T17:00:50Z

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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2026-10-12T17:00:50Z

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can ...

2026-10-11T17:00:50Z

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country ...

2026-10-10T17:00:50Z

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt ...

2026-10-09T17:00:50Z

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and ...

2026-10-08T17:00:52Z

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a ...

2026-10-07T17:00:51Z

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual ...

2026-10-06T17:00:50Z

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one ...

2026-10-05T17:00:51Z

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in ...

2026-10-04T17:00:50Z

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, ...

2026-10-02T17:00:51Z

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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2026-09-30T17:00:50Z

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be ...

2026-09-29T17:00:50Z

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to ...

2026-09-28T17:01:34Z

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man ...

2026-09-27T17:00:51Z

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

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2026-09-26T17:00:50Z

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly ...

2026-09-25T17:00:50Z

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of ...

2026-09-24T17:00:51Z

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a ...

2026-09-23T17:00:51Z

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.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a ...

2026-09-22T17:00:50Z

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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2026-09-21T17:00:50Z

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of ...

2026-09-20T17:00:50Z

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and ...

2026-09-18T17:00:50Z

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for ...

2026-09-16T17:00:50Z

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a ...

2026-09-15T17:00:51Z

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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2026-09-13T17:00:50Z

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

2026-09-12T17:00:50Z

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

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2026-09-11T17:00:50Z

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by ...

2026-09-09T17:00:50Z

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.