The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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