It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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