We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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The object of power is power.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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