Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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 test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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