If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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