To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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