The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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