Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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