Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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 greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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