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George Orwell Quotes: "We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.



George Orwell Quotes: "It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.




George Orwell Quotes: "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.



George Orwell Quotes: "The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.




George Orwell Quotes: "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.



George Orwell Quotes: "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."

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.



George Orwell Quotes: "The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good."

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.




George Orwell Quotes: "From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned."

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.



George Orwell Quotes: "Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.



George Orwell Quotes: "The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham ."

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .



George Orwell Quotes: "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power."

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.



George Orwell Quotes: "When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on."

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.




George Orwell Quotes: "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.



George Orwell Quotes: "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.



George Orwell Quotes: "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.



George Orwell Quotes: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.



George Orwell Quotes: "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.



George Orwell Quotes: "Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.



George Orwell Quotes: "Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.



George Orwell Quotes: "Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations."

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.



George Orwell Quotes: "Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.



George Orwell Quotes: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better."

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.



George Orwell Quotes: "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.



George Orwell Quotes: "By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself."

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.



George Orwell Quotes: "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."

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.



George Orwell Quotes: "True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear."

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.



George Orwell Quotes: "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.



George Orwell Quotes: "One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up."

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.



George Orwell Quotes: "In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four."

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.



George Orwell Quotes: "I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.



George Orwell Quotes: "To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.



George Orwell Quotes: "Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.



George Orwell Quotes: "It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.



George Orwell Quotes: "To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.



George Orwell Quotes: "Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist"

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist



George Orwell Quotes: "If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones."

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.



George Orwell Quotes: "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

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 Quotes: "Reality is inside the skull."

Reality is inside the skull.



George Orwell Quotes: "A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature"

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature



George Orwell Quotes: "When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys"

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys



George Orwell Quotes: "Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges."

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.



George Orwell Quotes: "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."

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.



George Orwell Quotes: "Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.



George Orwell Quotes: "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.



George Orwell Quotes: "It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours."

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.



George Orwell Quotes: "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.



George Orwell Quotes: "Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes."

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.



George Orwell Quotes: "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.



George Orwell Quotes: "Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear."

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.