The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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