War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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