All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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The object of power is power.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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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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