Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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