At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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