On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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