You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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