War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical 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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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