War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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