The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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