People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The object of power is power.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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