Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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 object of power is power.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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