On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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