Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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