The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. - George Orwell
It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. - George Orwell
A world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. - George Orwell
Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self-deceivers, or those whose lives are exceptionally fortunate, can face that thought without flinching. - George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. This is an illusion. - George Orwell
No one can get up much enthusiasm for a Government which puts you in jail if you open your mouth - George Orwell
Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. - George Orwell
In every one of those little stucco boxes, there s some poor bastard who' s never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming - George Orwell
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. - George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell
If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can t have any result whatever, you've beaten them - George Orwell
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims, but accomplices. - George Orwell
The distinguishing mark of a man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. - George Orwell
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. - George Orwell
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
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