All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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