Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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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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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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 creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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