The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The object of power is power.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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