George Orwell on freedom
George Orwell105 quotes“True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.”
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell 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 OrwellGeorge Orwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell
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