Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The object of power is power.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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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 best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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