The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Confession 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.
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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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 further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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