{"author":"George Orwell","author_id":"George+Orwell","total_quotes":402,"quotes":[{"text":"No doubt alcohol  tobacco  and so forth  are things that a saint must avoid  but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["virtue"],"id":315,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","future","history","past","present"],"id":521,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Nothing exists except through human consciousness.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","consciousness","dystopia","fiction","george-orwell","human"],"id":1922,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["anti-war","pacifism","war"],"id":2080,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["doldrums-of-war","spanish-civil-war","trench-warfare","war"],"id":2266,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["writing"],"id":2915,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["animals","equal","others "],"id":5819,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["england","history","life"],"id":9359,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["hunger","nationalism "],"id":10592,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","beautiful","beautiful-imagery","deep","different-worlds","dystopian-fiction","george-orwell"],"id":12159,"author_id":"George+Orwell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":402,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}