On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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