War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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