Four legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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