Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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