A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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