Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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The object of power is power.
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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 division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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