Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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