There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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 the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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