Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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