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.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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