People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The object of power is power.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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