Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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