Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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The object of power is power.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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