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Explore the chillingly prescient words of George Orwell, the author behind '1984' and 'Animal Farm'. This collection features some of his most impactful and thought-provoking quotes on power, truth, and society. Discover the wisdom of Orwell and other literary giants who shaped our understanding of the world.

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00:00All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell.
00:09War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell.
00:20He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell.
00:33If you want a picture of the future, imagine a bootstamping on a human face forever. George Orwell.
00:43The object of persecution is persecution.
00:48The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. George Orwell.
00:58Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. George Orwell.
01:06We are not interested in the good of others, but only in the good of ourselves. George Orwell.
01:16Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. George Orwell.
01:25All men are mortal. All men are brothers. All men are equal.
01:32George Orwell.
01:36There is no country in the world where the common people are more desperately poor and yet so well behaved.
01:43George Orwell.
01:47The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but
01:53already it was impossible to say which was which.
01:57George Orwell.
02:01If liberty means liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want
02:06to hear.
02:08George Orwell.
02:11A man may die, an appeal may be made to his honor, but the individual is the only thing that
02:17is not free.
02:19George Orwell.
02:35The surest way of getting a man into the army is to make it unpleasant for him outside.
02:41George Orwell.
02:45The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
02:51George Orwell.
02:55All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
03:01George Orwell.
03:04It is better to be caught with a case of burglars' tools than with a dictionary.
03:10George Orwell.
03:14It is better to be caught with the truth.
03:14Pacifism is objectively anti-socialist, anti-communist, and anti-democratic.
03:21George Orwell.
03:25Ideas are like rabbits.
03:27You get a couple, and before you know it you have a dozen.
03:32George Orwell.
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