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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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