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.
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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