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#1

“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

1281 likes

#2

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: absurd

1348 likes

#3

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

1382 likes

#4

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

tags: political

1576 likes

#5

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

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

1648 likes

#6

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1632 likes

#7

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

1796 likes

#8

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1759 likes

#9

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1804 likes

#10

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

tags: conscious, rebel

2170 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

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2431 likes

#13

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2626 likes

#14

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

2694 likes

#15

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

2781 likes

#16

“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

2893 likes

#17

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3105 likes

#18

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

tags: secrets

3552 likes

#19

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3854 likes

#20

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

tags: books, reading

4402 likes

#21

“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

#22

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

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7184 likes

#23

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

tags: animal-farm

7680 likes

#24

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

tags: truth

8513 likes

#25

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

tags: inspirational

10943 likes

#26

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

tags: truth

16210 likes

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