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.
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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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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