Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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