Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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