The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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