If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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 loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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