To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
More George Orwell Quotes
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The object of power is power.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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