We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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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 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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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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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