Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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