If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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