The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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