If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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