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.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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