Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLOf 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The object of power is power.
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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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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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