If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELLDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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