Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The object of power is power.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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