All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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