Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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