Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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 you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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