To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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