If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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