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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.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
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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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Acceptance Existence Happiness One Liner
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work

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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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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