Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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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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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.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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