Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The object of power is power.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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