Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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