People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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