To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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