War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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