The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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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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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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