He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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