Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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 Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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