The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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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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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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