There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The object of power is power.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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 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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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