Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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