Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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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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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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