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Sanity is not statistical.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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How right the working classes are in their materialism. How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
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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?
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Do you remember writing in your diary, he said, that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
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Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
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The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word Art, and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K. kicking little girls in the head is O.K. even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
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You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
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If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.
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What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
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Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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?
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
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Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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