Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
More George Orwell Quotes
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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