If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLIn philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The object of power is power.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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