It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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