Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
More George Orwell Quotes
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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