The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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 aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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