There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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