The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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