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Danh ngôn của George Orwell (Sứ mệnh: 7)

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. 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.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.