Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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