If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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