Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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 object of power is power.
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