Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe 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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change 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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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