Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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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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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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