Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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