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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.

Believe, Intelligent, Ideas

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

Freedom, Want

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Truth, Reality, Mind

George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.72, Dramatic Publishing

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Murder, Terrorism, Oppression

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

Light, Faces, Pushing

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

Badass, Intelligent, Imagination

George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Responsibility, People, Literature

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

Jobs, Men, White

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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

Courage, Truth, Struggle

Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

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.

Mad, Nineteen, Minorities

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Life, Fake People, Events

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

Sex, Fruit Juice, Feminist

George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

Meaningless

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Real, Doe, Want

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

Dollars, Way, Million Dollars

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

Life, Happiness, Happy

George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

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.

Long, Mass, Standards

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

Believe, Political, Intellectual

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.

Political, Nineteen, Impossible

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 5 (1949)

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.

Peace, War, Ubuntu

George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Father, Son, Persistence

"1984".

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

Thinking, Substitutes

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

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

Humility, Fools Day, Aggravation

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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