Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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