The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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