Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The object of power is power.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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