We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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