Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL
It 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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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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