Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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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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