Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Your 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.
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