Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does 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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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