Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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