People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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