The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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