Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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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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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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