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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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