We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLMan 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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