In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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