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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELL

Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness

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