People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLBeauty is meaningless until it is shared.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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