We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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 you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The object of power is power.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Of 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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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