In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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