Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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