Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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