There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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