The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The object of power is power.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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