It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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