Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The object of power is power.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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