The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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