The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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