I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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