The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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