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.
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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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