It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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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 be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The object of power is power.
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