News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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 aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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