A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELL
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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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In 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.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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