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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The object of power is power.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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