If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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