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George Orwell Quote - On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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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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Beat Club Ground Man Police
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Existence Happiness One Liner
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELL

Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL

Capital Slave World
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL

Continue War Win
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money Religion Start
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELL

Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL

Business Hide Mask Secret Yourself
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Polite
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL

Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle

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