To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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