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Big Brother is watching you.

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to est...more

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly ...more

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...more

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With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness...more

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The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable an...more

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If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Ocean...more

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Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every...more

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To die hating them, that was freedom

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The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not ...more