Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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 Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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