Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The object of power is power.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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