There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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