To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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