The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The object of power is power.
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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 you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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