The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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