Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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