Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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