War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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