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.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The object of power is power.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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