Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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