Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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