It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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