The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The object of power is power.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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