There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The object of power is power.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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