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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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.

People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Liberal: a power worshiper without power.

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.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.


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

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?