Sanity is not statistical.
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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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.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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