If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLWhen I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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