There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The object of power is power.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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