The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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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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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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