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1  Inequality was the price of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  Even the civil police interfered with them very little.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  The glamour of the underground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung to them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
6  He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming--in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  When you looked at O'Brien's powerful shoulders and his blunt-featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1