The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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