The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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