On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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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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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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