The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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