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George Orwell Quotes

"There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic""Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.""Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of 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.""The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.""Sanity is not statistical.""Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.""To die hating them, that was freedom.""But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.""In the face of pain there are no heroes.""If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.""We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.""Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.""If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.""The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.""Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.""We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.""Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.""Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.""Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.""The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."