At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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