In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The object of power is power.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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