Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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