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.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from 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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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