There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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