A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The object of power is power.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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