You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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 creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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