We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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