Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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 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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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 object of power is power.
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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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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.
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