It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for 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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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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 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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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 best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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