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.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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