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 ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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