Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The object of power is power.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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