Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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