Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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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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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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