Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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The object of power is power.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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