The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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