Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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