Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The object of power is power.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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