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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL

Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL

Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Myth One Liner True
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Labour Live Miserable
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELL

Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL

Continue War Win
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Destroy Enemy
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELL

Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Four legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL

Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL

Play Serious Sports

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