On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLIn 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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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