Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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