Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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