The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The object of power is power.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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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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