Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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