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George Orwell Quote - Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL

Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL

According Action Bad Goodness Merit
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELL

Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joke One Liner Revolution
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL

Continue War Win
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money People Poor Rich
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money Religion Start
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift
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
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual

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