Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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