The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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