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.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The object of power is power.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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