The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The object of power is power.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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