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.
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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The object of power is power.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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