Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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