We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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