A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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