If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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