On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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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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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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