The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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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 further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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