On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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