Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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