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 ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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 fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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