The object of power is power.
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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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