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.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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The object of power is power.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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