Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLTo die hating them, that was freedom.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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