Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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 object of power is power.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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