Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLBeauty is meaningless until it is shared.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change 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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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