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George Orwell Quote - People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom Hear True Want
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Labour Live Miserable
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Media People Tell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL

Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL

Continue War Win
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL

Play Serious Sports
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Quite Time
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joke One Liner Revolution
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Beauty One Liner Positive Share

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