War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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