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.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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