Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The object of power is power.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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