At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
More George Orwell Quotes
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The object of power is power.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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