To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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