"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
"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."
"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
--George Orwell
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