The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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