Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The object of power is power.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Every 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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