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George Orwell Quotes

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.""Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood""Happiness can exist only in acceptance""In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics""People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf""It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it""It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.""Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.""But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.""Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.""To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.""We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.""War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.""Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.""Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.""Four legs good, two legs bad.""The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.""Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.""If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.""The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."