Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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