Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLIn 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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The object of power is power.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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