The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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 is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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 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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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