The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLYour 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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 want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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