Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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