The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The object of power is power.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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