To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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