Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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