It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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