We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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