George Orwell quotes - page 9

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? (George Orwell)
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. View quote
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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. View quote
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. View quote
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History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. View quote
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution. View quote
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. View quote
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. View quote
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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. View quote
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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. View quote
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. (George Orwell)
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. View quote
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. View quote
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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. View quote
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. View quote
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. View quote
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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? View quote
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. View quote
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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. View quote
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. View quote
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. (George Orwell)
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. View quote
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You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. View quote
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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. View quote
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If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? View quote
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