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George Orwell Quote - Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL

One Liner Sanity Statistics
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELL

Except Inside Skull
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL

Break Business Inspirational Rule
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELL

Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Destroy Enemy
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Polite
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Drift Society Speak Truth
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money Religion Start
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELL

Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Defense Politics Represent War
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Knowledge Reading
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL

Giving Love Positive
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Existence Happiness One Liner
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Freedom Government Inside
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Live Tolerance
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Hear Liberty People Want
Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money People Poor Rich
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
GEORGE ORWELL

Choice Evil Politics
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conservation One Liner Patriotism

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