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.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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 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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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 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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