Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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