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Famous George Orwell Quotes
“I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY”
“The heresy of heresies was common sense.”
“Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.”
“Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.”
“You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.”
“Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.”
“Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.”
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”