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Which ones of Orwell's warnings apply to today's political situation?
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1. “If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.” ― George Orwell
2. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell
3. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” ― George Orwell
4. “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
5. “Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.” ― George Orwell
6. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” ― George Orwell
7. “I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” ― George Orwell
8. “Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.” ― George Orwell
9. “Nothing exists except through human consciousness” ― George Orwell
10. “It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.” ― George Orwell
11. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” ― George Orwell
12. “Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.” ― George Orwell
13. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ― George Orwell
14. “She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had the right to,” ― George Orwell
15. “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” ― George Orwell
16. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell
17. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues….” ― George Orwell
18. “Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” ― George Orwell
19. “Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.” ― George Orwell
20. “Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ― George Orwell
21. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” ― George Orwell
22. “All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.” ― George Orwell
23. “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.” ― George Orwell
24. “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― George Orwell
25. “If there really is such a thing as turning in one’s grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.” ― George Orwell
26. “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell
27. “You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” ― George Orwell
28. “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ” ― George Orwell
29. “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell
30. “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” ― George Orwell
31. “The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes” ― George Orwell
32. “It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.” ― George Orwell
33. “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” ― George Orwell
34. “A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.” ― George Orwell
35. “If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you; won’t, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.” ― George Orwell
36. “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.” ― George Orwell
37.“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.” ― George Orwell
38. “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.” ― George Orwell
39. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell
40. "The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” ― George Orwell
41. “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.” ― George Orwell
42. “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
43. “It was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.” ― George Orwell
44. “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.” ― George Orwell
45. “In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.” ― George Orwell
46. “Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.” ― George Orwell
47. “Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.” ― George Orwell
48. “So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.” ― George Orwell
49. “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.” ― George Orwell
50. “Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” ― George Orwell
51. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”― George Orwell
52. “Sanity is not statistical.”― George Orwell
53. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”― George Orwell
54. “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”― George Orwell
55. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”― George Orwell
56. “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”― George Orwell
57. “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”― George Orwell
58. “If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”― George Orwell
59. “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”― George Orwell
60. “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
― George Orwell
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1. “If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.” ― George Orwell
2. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell
3. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” ― George Orwell
4. “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
5. “Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.” ― George Orwell
6. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” ― George Orwell
7. “I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” ― George Orwell
8. “Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.” ― George Orwell
9. “Nothing exists except through human consciousness” ― George Orwell
10. “It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.” ― George Orwell
11. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” ― George Orwell
12. “Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.” ― George Orwell
13. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ― George Orwell
14. “She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had the right to,” ― George Orwell
15. “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” ― George Orwell
16. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell
17. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues….” ― George Orwell
18. “Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” ― George Orwell
19. “Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.” ― George Orwell
20. “Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ― George Orwell
21. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” ― George Orwell
22. “All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.” ― George Orwell
23. “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.” ― George Orwell
24. “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― George Orwell
25. “If there really is such a thing as turning in one’s grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.” ― George Orwell
26. “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell
27. “You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” ― George Orwell
28. “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ” ― George Orwell
29. “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell
30. “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” ― George Orwell
31. “The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes” ― George Orwell
32. “It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.” ― George Orwell
33. “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” ― George Orwell
34. “A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.” ― George Orwell
35. “If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you; won’t, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.” ― George Orwell
36. “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.” ― George Orwell
37.“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.” ― George Orwell
38. “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.” ― George Orwell
39. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell
40. "The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” ― George Orwell
41. “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.” ― George Orwell
42. “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
43. “It was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.” ― George Orwell
44. “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.” ― George Orwell
45. “In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.” ― George Orwell
46. “Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.” ― George Orwell
47. “Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.” ― George Orwell
48. “So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.” ― George Orwell
49. “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.” ― George Orwell
50. “Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” ― George Orwell
51. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”― George Orwell
52. “Sanity is not statistical.”― George Orwell
53. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”― George Orwell
54. “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”― George Orwell
55. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”― George Orwell
56. “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”― George Orwell
57. “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”― George Orwell
58. “If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”― George Orwell
59. “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”― George Orwell
60. “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
― George Orwell
