The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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