100+ George Orwell Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
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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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
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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Judgement People Thinking Writing
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want

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