People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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