The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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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The object of power is power.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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