Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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 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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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