It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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