Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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