Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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