In 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.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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The object of power is power.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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