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.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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The object of power is power.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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