Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLIn 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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