Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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