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#1

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

tags: truth

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#2

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

tags: inspirational

10967 likes

#3

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

tags: truth

16248 likes

#4

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

tags: animal-farm

7708 likes

#5

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

tags: books, reading

4414 likes

#6

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

2441 likes

#7

“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

4326 likes

#8

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy

796 likes

#9

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

907 likes

#10

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
― George Orwell

253 likes

#11

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four

1258 likes

#12

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: misquote, paraphrased

836 likes

#13

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

980 likes

#14

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

725 likes

#15

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
― George Orwell

tags: writing

431 likes

#16

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

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

1657 likes

#17

“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, 1984

543 likes

#18

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984

195 likes

#19

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

453 likes

#20

“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel”
― George Orwell, 1984

140 likes

#21

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me--”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george, george-orwell, orwell, trader

94 likes

#22

“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: interesting

130 likes

#23

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: advertising, censorship, george-orwell, ideas, media, news, truth

71 likes

#24

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: authorial-intent, classics, drama, interpretation, shakespeare

267 likes

#25

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

277 likes

#26

“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
― George Orwell

20 likes

#27

“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: timely

35 likes

#28

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
― George Orwell

59 likes

#29

“2 + 2 = 5”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

91 likes

#30

“the mute protest in your own bones”
― George Orwell, 1984

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