At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The object of power is power.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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 people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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