People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals 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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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