Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLWhen I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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