Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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