On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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