The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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