If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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 liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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