The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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