The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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The object of power is power.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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