Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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