We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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