The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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