Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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