The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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