The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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