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 people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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