On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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