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【纪念上世纪最伟大的流浪者】《乔治·奥威尔格言》——虽然是原文，你一定读得下去                                                      George Orwell Quotes
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”  
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”  
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”  
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. 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 establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“Sanity is not statistical.”
“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.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“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. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. ”