All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Confession 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.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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