Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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