Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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