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.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The object of power is power.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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