The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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