Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLI do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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