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.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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 do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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