Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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