Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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 fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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