History is written by the winners.
George Orwell
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
George Orwell
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell
One defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George Orwell
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George Orwell
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George Orwell
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell
Thought crime does not entail death. Thought crime is death.
George Orwell
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.
George Orwell
When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
If you disregard people’s motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions.
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