The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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In 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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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