Friday, August 15, 2008

Quotes from George Orwell

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”

“An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

“"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”

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

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

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

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