Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLTo die hating them, that was freedom.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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