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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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 creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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