If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Man 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.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The object of power is power.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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