Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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