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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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