However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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