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

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

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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
GEORGE ORWELL

Darkness Meet Place
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Die Freedom Hate
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL

Liberty One Liner Power Worship
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Myth One Liner True
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy One Liner Truth
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Polite
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Intellectual Normal Person
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conservation One Liner Patriotism

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