To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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