Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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