Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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