On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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