The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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