The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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