Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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