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.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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