Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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