However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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