The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLMan 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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