To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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