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.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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