On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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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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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.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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.
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