Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLOf pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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 further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The object of power is power.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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