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.
GEORGE ORWELLConfession 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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