I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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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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