Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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