If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe 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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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