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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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