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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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