News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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