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.
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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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 real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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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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