In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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 only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The object of power is power.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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