To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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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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