We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLYour worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit 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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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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