The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change 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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