On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLOf 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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