I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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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 real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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