To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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