Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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