If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLYour 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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 war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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