If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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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 die hating them, that was freedom.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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