True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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