Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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