Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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