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#1

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16203 likes

#2

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10933 likes

#3

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8510 likes

#4

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7672 likes

#5

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7181 likes

#6

“Every 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

4321 likes

#7

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4400 likes

#8

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3551 likes

#9

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

2892 likes

#10

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2692 likes

#11

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2246 likes

#12

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

2154 likes

#13

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2168 likes

#14

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1794 likes

#15

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

1642 likes

#16

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: political

1573 likes

#17

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with 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.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1358 likes

#18

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1382 likes

#19

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

tags: humanity, truth, wisdom

1280 likes

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