To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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