To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The object of power is power.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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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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