Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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