Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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