Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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