Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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