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George Orwell Quote - On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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