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.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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