To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLMan 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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 greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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