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 ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of 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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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